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Good morning, Broadsheet readers! Meta's Sheryl Sandberg investigation looks back years, Disney corporate drama elevates a female executive, and Silenced No More protections are slowly giving workers their voices back. Have a productive Monday.
- Silenced No More. Last week, Microsoft announced that it will no longer include non-disclosure clauses in employee separation agreements. The announcement was yet another victory for advocates behind the Silenced No More campaign, an effort to prohibit NDAs in cases of discrimination and harassment at work.
Silenced No More first gained attention as a legislative effort in 2021 when California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a state bill by that name into law. Similar legislation is set to go into effect in Washington state. But legislation is only one piece of the puzzle, says Ifeoma Ozoma. "While we were in the process of passing the bill through the California legislature last year, I had this thought: What is the best way to expand protections for these workers?" she says.
Ozoma was a whistleblower at Pinterest, where she defied her own non-disclosure agreement to speak up about racial discrimination at the company. Her experience dealing with discrimination in tech, coupled with her professional background working in public policy roles at Pinterest, Facebook, and Google,...
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