Heather Wallander waited over a year for a promotion at US-based access management company Okta. “All of my peers, including those with less tenure, became senior manager last year,” Wallander wrote in a LinkedIn post. “When I asked why, the reasons were that I’m ‘high strung’.” Although she has finally received her career bump, addressing … Read more
A Citigroup managing director said the bank failed to protect her from a supervisor’s violent threats and abuse because of its “pervasive” culture of sexual harassment and gender discrimination, according to an amended legal filing on Monday. Ardith Lindsey, who worked as Americas head of electronic sales trading, added details to her November lawsuit outlining … Read more
“These numbers are simply too high,” said Vlada Polisadova, a parliamentary assistant and a volunteer with MeTooEP, which combats sexual harassment and seeks to improve working conditions in the European Parliament. “The amount of persons that have witnessed or experienced harassment is too high.” The survey also found that 42.4 percent of people had witnessed … Read more
In July, 2013, Will Shortz, the New York Timesâ longtime puzzle editor, asked me to be his assistant. I had just graduated from college, and, to my mind, the invitation had little rationale. It arrived on the heels of minimal correspondence: two e-mails in which Shortz had accepted two of my puzzles, with minor revisions. … Read more
