"Uber is not the only tech company that mishandles sexual harassment claims", 20 Feb 2017

On Sunday, a female former Uber engineer detailed her experiences of sexual harassment during her one-year stint at the multibillion-dollar company. The engineer, Susan Fowler, said she experienced sexual harassment and had reported it to Uber’s human resources department but to no avail. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has since said that he plans to investigate...60 percent of women in tech reporting receiving unwanted sexual advances...Fowler’s failed attempt to receive help from Uber’s HR department also seems to be common at tech companies...Very little seems to ever happen to the perpetrators and, if taken to court, these cases rarely turn out in favor of the recipient of the sexual harassment, mostly because, even with evidence, sexual harassment can be tough to prove....[B]ecause of gag orders from employers that prevent people from saying anything that could be disparaging to them, we don’t often get to hear the stories about sexual harassment.  The conditions of severance payouts typically prevent recipients from relaying details of what happened during their time at the company, including any sexual harassment incidents...[Refers to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, GitHub, Squarespace]