She notes that when she asked a director about the trend, “his reply was, in a nutshell, that the women of Uber just needed to step up and be better engineers.” Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has launched an “urgent investigation” into a claim of sexual harassment made by a former employee of the company. The woman, who worked at Uber’s San Francisco office from 2014 to 2016, said she was sexually harassed and later fired after complaining about her treatment in 2016. Fowler also claimed that other female co-workers’ complaints about the same individual had been ignored. Fowler described Uber as “an organization in complete, unrelenting chaos” in a blog post. Fowler, who has since left the company, said that the percentage of female engineers in her section fell from over 25% to under 6% in a year.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has launched an “urgent investigation” into a claim of sexual harassment made by a former employee of the company. The woman, who worked at Uber’s San Francisco office from 2014 to 2016, said she was sexually harassed and later fired after complaining about her treatment in 2016. Fowler also claimed that other female co-workers’ complaints about the same individual had been ignored. Fowler described Uber as “an organization in complete, unrelenting chaos” in a blog post. Fowler, who has since left the company, said that the percentage of female engineers in her section fell from over 25% to under 6% in a year.