Sheryl Sandberg has become the spokeswoman for women in Business. Her stances on the working women has become a social movement know as #leanin. There is no denying that Sandberg is an amazing ambassador for women in business, and encourages women to help each other. But what do we say about what happened to Ellen Pao? There've been countless articles in the tech and boarding news sites, so let's go through the Ellen Pao saga at Reddit. Pao was appointed interim CEO of Reddit in 2014. If you are not aware, Reddit is a popular social networking system where their members can share ideas. Reading around, 'interim' CEOs are general appointed during periods of turmoil and are hired for their expertise in a specific field. After going through Pao's education and experience: electrical engine, lawyer and completed an MBA - she fit the role like peanut-butter and jelly. Throughout the years, Reddit has faced controversies with their users facing death threats and publishing misleading information: one most popular was Sunil Tripathi who was wrongly accused of being a suspect in a Bombing case on Reddit. This being one of the many cases that Reddit has gone under the fire. Reddit's discussions are moderated, even though it …show more content…
Subsequently some the Reddit user revolted and label her as a "totalitarian", further calling for her resignation which remarkably achieved over 200k in signatures! Unfortunately Pao resigned this month. This brings us back to many questions about women in leadership. There are many stories surfacing about why Pao resigned. Was she thrown under a bus? or did the company just give up on her too quickly? Pao has come out saying that the "trolls are winning". Everyone seems to have an opinion, but one that has stuck with me was Pao was a feminist, and was trying to challenge and advocate change (Jessica Valenti,
In 2010, Ellen Pao (a woman, who according to Slate magazine is educated in business, law and engineering) filed a discrimination suit against her employer, Kleiner Perkins. In 2015, after a trial that lasted nearly one month, the jury found in favor of Kleiner Perkins. Although this wasn’t the outcome that people had hoped for, many believed that the case represented an important moment for professional women: Despite Pao’s loss, the public’s awareness of the discrimination women face in male dominated environments had increased as a result of her public pursuit.
The age of the new beginnings takes place during a time of discovery and colonization. At this time 102 European colonist set up a colony in New England, Massachusetts in 1620. There they will have many fascinating encounters with, a friend and a potential foe, a Native American tribe called the Wampanoag. They were believed to have a trustful relationship with one another but where did their friendship go so wrong? Their friendship came to an end since the Europeans took advantage of the Wampanoag, they had rules to their friendship, and they established an unfair legal system.
Ellen stands against the status quo and inspires others to do as well. “I think what saved me was being honest. I think I somehow had the courage to do something and to say something that I knew could possibly end my career. Instead of making
You did an excellent job answering this week’s discussion board question. You discuse4d several excellent way to identify possible indicator an employee may be involved in fraudulent activity. Being vigilant of changes in employees’ performance, behaviors, and habits is a key way to identify employees that may be involved in fraudulent activity. However, this also applies when considering hiring new employee, especially if they will be in direct contact with sensitive information. Pre-employment checks, such as credit checks and background checks, are ways to prevent form hiring employees that might commit fraudulent active. I also noticed that you mentioned that employees that don’t go on vacation very much or at all may indicate
The majority of people don’t enjoy discussing controversial topics. Most believe that if it is not happening to them they don’t need to worry about it. That is not the case though. In today's world we can still
Florida AG accuses Clearwater firms of fraud in property deals. Two Clearwater businesses and their president, alleging the companies defrauded consumers out of thousands of dollars in a land buying scheme. The defendants charged upfront fees on average of $2,250 for brokering the deals, sometimes promising to refund most of the money, but rarely following through on those promises, a statement said. 34 people were paid about $70,000 to Scott and the two businesses.
Now in current time, Ellen continue to inspire the young LBGTQ community. She uses her publicity to fight for LGBTQ rights. Since Ellen is very popular, she used her popularity to influence those watching the show to support LGBTQ. She did more than influencing America’s views on gay rights. She inspired people. She’s an important public figure to the LGBTQ community, who’s role was important in advancing the rights LGBTQ
Once again, with EA already driving Diversity, she became a steward of diversity more so than crafting the doctrine. She has spoken multiple about how more women need to be introduced to the STEM fields, along with a belief that women need to push through the idea of sexism in the gamming communities and establish themselves with in companies. And this really does show with the influxes of females in EA’s work discussed above. However much of the industry still faces these gender gaps. As such, she continues to be found in articles by Forbes and within EA talking to other industry power houses, trying to push for female inclusion outside of her own
Lean In: Women, Work and The Will To Lead, by Sheryl Sandberg, addresses how women can achieve professional achievement and overcome the lack of leadership progress that has been absent over the past few years. Sandberg uses personal experience, research and humor to examine the choices that working women make everyday. She argues that women can achieve professional goals while still being happy within their personal lives. She argues this by going into detail about what risks to take, how to pursue certain professional goals and how to overcome struggles such as balancing a family and a career. All through Lean In, Sandberg uses the fourth dimension of interpersonal effects through a Narrative to show her indicated stance on gender
2a. Source B is a panel discussion between 5 different parties that were interested in discussing women and their troubles within the corporate world. The moderator during the discussion was Barbara Jones, senior editor of Harper's Magazine. The discussion took place in 1997 following the resignation of Brenda Barnes, the CEO and president of Pepsi-Cola North America. She decided to resign to be able to spend more time with her children. Media considered her a “casualty of anxiety and ambivalence forced on women by the terms of corporate success.” (Giving women the business: on winning, losing, and leaving the corporate game.Panel Discussion. n.d.) Many women felt her quitting put them back a long time because she had worked so hard to gain that position to quit and stay home with her children. Women had to fight so hard to get to the top, they felt she shouldn't have told them the reason she was quitting was due to her wanting to be a stay at home mom. Feminism had just began to really gain acceptance during this time in the 1990’s and the discussion talks about corporate culture and how women could succeed when odds were
Since the beginning of the American feminist movement in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention to the present, gender equality has been heavily debated and discussed. The liberties being called for by feminists have changed over the years, but their message has always remained the same; equality for all women and men. “Lean In…”, written by modern day feminist and COO at Facebook, is a new age telling of the difficulties and inequalities women face in the current day corporate front office. The author, Sheryl Sandberg, uses personal anecdotes and experiences to come up with her own versions of the definition of feminism, the importance of a “life partner”, and how women are to achieve
In the latest article “Has Anything Really Changed for Women in Tech?” Ellen Pao concludes that finally after all these years of women being punished for reporting sexual harassment at work, tech companies are starting to look into this issue and realize that it is a problem and something needs to be done about it. It’s worth noting that Ellen Pao herself had to leave Google after coming forward accusing male employees of discrimination in a lawsuit she ended up losing. She was offered and refused twice a settlement offer from Google in the amount of a few million dollars! for her to stop pressing the
Donald Trump’s is a con artist who resembles his own university; he scams people out of their money, and his whole campaign is a scam. Trump lied to people on live TV saying that his university got an A approval rating by the Better Business Bureau. However, that is a lie; the last time they rated his university was in 2010 and they gave it a D-. Furthermore, Trump University shut down in 2011 and now Trump has many lawsuits that have been filed against his university for fraud. The people that paid to attend Trump University never actually met Trump even though they were promised. The closest any of the students got was taking a picture with a cardboard cutout of Trump. Trump scammed people between $20,000 and $60,000; but if Trump continually
1.) An API user is given an account but is not able to view that account through the interface. The reason
An Internet crime can be a developmental scheme by the perpetrator, using different elements of the internet, and false representation to deprive a person's property or any interest (Kim et al., 2012). Although botched representation comes along, with the provision of misleading information or anonymity of data. In the recent years, there has been an increasing trust of consumers and businesses in the carrying out of particular actions. The amplifying usage comes along with the electronic communication during the act of major business rules. The increasingly rising internet crimes have come along with the global advancement that incorporates internet based conduct of business (Anderson et al., 2013). In the digital era the crime perpetrators, have absorbed the idea of shifting with times leading to the high number of the crimes. The reason that we cannot distinguish between the self additionally the risk trader comes in with internet crime given that a face-to-face communication and monitoring barrier. With that respect, the associated internet fraud has greatly affected by the general allowance, trust, and the usage. The paper will center on the effects attached to social cost, trust, and usage associated with internet fraud.