Labor/Employment
Mar. 14, 2015
Pao a less-than-ideal plaintiff, but does it matter?
Ellen Pao has proven to be a flawed candidate to take on the male-dominated culture of Silicon Valley - but is no worse than past high-profile plaintiffs with major gender discrimination claims.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
If plaintiffs' lawyers and gender equality activists could create the ideal candidate to represent the clubby male-dominated world of Silicon Valley, it would not be Ellen Pao.
After delivering clear and reasonable- sounding testimony under examination from her own lawyer, Therese M. Lawless, at the start of the week, Pao has offered stilted and incomplete accounts of her workplace relationship w...
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