Susan Fowler

4 women in engineering discuss harassment, isolation and perseverence

Four women from engineering backgrounds described daily challenges and their strong determination to be the best engineers they can be -- without all the obstruction.

Why venture capital firms need culture experts

True Ventures VP of culture Madeline Kolbe Saltzman on how to "scale inclusively."

A diversity and inclusion playbook

You’d be hard-pressed to find a tech company that said it wished it had waited longer to implement on diversity and inclusion efforts. The examples of tech companies “doing it right”

Susan Fowler’s memoir has a title and a release date

Pre-orders begin June 12.

Uber ends policy of forced arbitration for individual sexual assault claims

In a major policy change for its US operations, Uber has announced it’s ending mandatary arbitration for individual claims of sexual assault or sexual harassment by Uber drivers, riders or emplo

Uber whistleblower Susan Fowler backs California legislation to end forced arbitration

Susan Fowler, the former Uber engineer whose blog post about sexual harassment and troubling internal workings led to the departure of CEO Travis Kalanick, is backing new legislation that aims to g

A look at 42 women in tech who crushed it in 2017

What a challenging, exhilarating year it has been for women everywhere, starting from the women’s March on Washington to former Uber engineer Susan Fowler’s eye-opening and now famous blog post to

Good Universe lands movie rights to ex-Uber engineer Susan Fowler’s sexual harassment story

Independent film production company Good Universe beat out three other bidders to land “Disruptors,” the movie based on former Uber engineer Susan Fowler’s sexual harassment story. F

A movie about former Uber engineer Susan Fowler is reportedly being shopped around

In all likelihood, when former Uber engineer Susan Fowler authored a now-famous post about her "very strange year" at Uber and the culture of sexism she witnessed first-hand at the company, she had no

Susan Fowler’s lawyers just told the Supreme Court why tech cos should eliminate arbitration agreements

Susan Fowler, the former Uber engineer whose blog post about the company's troubling internal workings eventually led to the ouster of its CEO Travis Kalanick, has a new message for the Supreme Court:

Uber engineering manager who oversaw Susan Fowler’s department has reportedly left

AG Gangadhar, who led Uber’s storage, machine learning and infrastructure groups, has left the company, Recode reports. Gangadhar was reportedly a director Fowler referenced in her blog post abo

Why now?

Sexism in tech (and elsewhere) has always been an open secret but it seems we've hit an inflection point. More women are now willing to expose that secret.

Susan Fowler says Uber’s apology to former riders is ‘all optics’

Uber apologized to some former riders in New York City and in other markets via email on Friday, saying that the company is aware it has “fallen short” and failed to prioritize the needs o

Crunch Report | Instagram Stories Surpasses Snapchat

Instagram Stories surpasses Snapchat in terms of users, Susan Fowler joins Stripe, Google makes its fashion image searches look more like Pinterest and Yext shares pop more than 20 percent in public d

Susan Fowler joins Stripe as editor-in-chief of new quarterly publication Increment

Stripe today is launching a new quarterly publication called Increment featuring opinion pieces, expert interviews and how-to guides targeted at an engineering audience. To manage the site and all the

Susan Fowler Rigetti hires employment law firm in response to Uber’s actions

Update 11:25 AM PT: An Uber spokesperson provided the following statement regarding the separate firm it retained aside from Holder’s: The law firm Perkins Coie is looking into the specific alle

Everything we know so far about Uber’s sexual harassment scandal

Former Uber engineer Susan Fowler Rigetti’s story of sexual harassment and HR complicity at the company has drawn a lot of attention from the outside world as many relate to her frustrations a

Uber says it’s ‘absolutely not’ behind a smear campaign against ex-employee Susan Fowler Rigetti

Uber is under attack once again today as the Twittersphere quickly concluded it was behind a smear campaign against a former engineer for the company, Susan Fowler Rigetti, who dropped a scathing blog

Former Uber engineer says company ignored repeated reports of sexual harassment

Former Uber site reliability engineer Susan Fowler accused the company of rampant sexual harassment and human resources negligence in a blog post published today. It's the latest in a series of events