Did Elon Musk target women during mass layoffs?
Twitter faces yet another lawsuit stemming from the mass layoffs last month that reduced the social media giant’s workforce by more than a half.
Two former employees are suing the San Francisco-based company over alleged sex discrimination, claiming that women were disproportionately impacted in the job cuts.
The lawsuit alleges that 57% of female employees were laid off compared to 47% of male employees, even though the company employed more men before the layoffs. The disparity is even more evident for engineering-related positions: 63% of women were laid off compared to 48% of men, according to the lawsuit.
Carolina Bernal Strifling and Willow Wren Turkal (a former staff site reliability engineer, according to LinkedIn) filed the class action this week, alleging that Musk’s ultimatum of employees committing to “working long hours at high intensity” or resigning also disproportionately affected women, “who are more often caregivers for children and other family members, and thus not able to comply with such demands,” the lawsuit states.
After the ultimatum, approximately 36% of women left Twitter compared to 28% of men, according to the lawsuit.
“The mass termination of employees at Twitter has impacted female employees to a much greater extent than male employees – and to a highly statistically significant degree,” wrote attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan, representing the former employees. “Moreover, Elon Musk has made a...
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