A woman who worked as field engineer at Schlumberger has sued the oil-field services company for $100 million, alleging pervasive sexual harassment and a workplace culture that accepted it...The 40-page complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Houston, seeks to be certified as a class action lawsuit and claims that Houston-based oil-field services giant violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Michael Palmer, a New York lawyer and one of the attorneys representing Saidman in the case, said his law firm is talking with several current and former Schlumberger employees who may join the lawsuit...

About 95 percent of Schlumberger’s employees on the rigs are men, according to the lawsuit. The company’s formal policies instruct employees who have been harassed to “politely” confront the harassers themselves before seeking assistance from management...The lawsuit claims that Schlumberger allowed “a terrorizing environment where men discriminate against their female colleagues with impunity” and “knowingly permitted male workers to treat women who work on oil rigs as sex objects and second-class citizens.”...Saidman was repeatedly advised against reporting her experiences to Schlumberger and told to “ ‘get over herself,’ ‘learn to deal with it,’ and ‘not make a fuss’ because seeking redress from the company would ‘backfire’ on her and ‘torpedo’ her career,”...