Sentences with phrase «sexist workplace»

Either John Abbott College is an uncommonly sexist workplace, or contact with a green celebrity caused a number of its staff members to totally lose their bearings for an extended period of time.

Honorable Mentions: Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace by Jessica Bennett (September 2016) Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear — and Why by Sady Doyle (September 2016) Nasty Galaxy by Sophia Amoruso (October 2016) Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing by Jennifer Weiner (October 2016) Better Than New: Lessons I've Learned from Saving Old Homes (and How They Saved Me) by Nicole Curtis (October 2016)

And lastly, the result could be yet another damning indictment of Uber, which in recent months has been hit with a series of scandals that range from accusations of running a sexist workplace to admissions of creating proprietary programs used to thwart regulators and rivals.

The company has never had a COO in its history, but in March, just a few weeks after a former Uber engineer published a scathing tell - all about the company's sexist workplace culture, Kalanick himself admitted he needed a right - hand executive «who can partner with me to write the next chapter in our journey.»

With a healthy dose of humor, her new book, Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace, offers a helping hand to young women seeking an equal playing — and paying — field.

Not exact matches

She was the first female engineer to work on offshore oil rigs in the UK — an environment that she's said was less sexist than her next workplace in the investment banking industry.

The all - hands meeting of Uber regarding CEO Travis Kalanick and the rampant sexism in the workplace took a hard turn toward the wrong way when board member David Bonderman inappropriately made a sexist joke.

Quoting «people familiar with the matter,» the Wall Street Journal reported that several investors had been pushed Kalanick to resign in an effort to steady the company's course as he struggled to clean up, among other things, charges that its workplace was sexist and oppressive for women.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick held an «honest, raw and emotional» staff meeting about sexism, after a former engineer detailed a sexist, discriminatory and abusive workplace culture.

It's been quite a media maelstrom for Uber in recent months, facing allegations of sexist abuse in the workplace, reports of an aggressive corporate culture, and much more.

Uber Freight launches as the company and its CEO Travis Kalanick get set to release the results of an internal investigation launched on the heels of a former employee's description of a sexist and ultra-aggressive workplace environment.

Additionally, some things inside its workplace need to be fixed, such as multiple reports of a sexist culture, engineers and managers sabotaging each other, and more.

Davis contends that the Saints have imposed workplace rules that are blatantly sexist and degrading.

CHANG: A victory for «The Salesman» looks extremely possible, even though I'm still very much rooting for «Toni Erdmann» — and I hasten to add that an award for a female - directed movie about a woman being slowly worn down by sexist, conformist workplace culture is hardly an apolitical choice.

Flirty comments and emails, comments on personal social media walls, jokes that can be considered sexist, and behavior that could be interpreted as sexual harassment are more common in the workplace than we might think.

If you would like to keep your job, perhaps keeping strong, «controversial» (sexist, racist, or anything demeaning and derogatory) opinions to yourself in the workplace, is the smarter way to go, because legally you are unlikely to succeed in convincing the courts that being a conservative cost you your job.

The Human Rights Tribunal found the comments in the blog posts were sexist and offensive, but held the posts were not conducted «with respect to employment» or «in the workplace.»