8 more women allege sexual harassment and discrimination at PlayStation maker Sony
Eight former and current Sony Interactive Entertainment employees have accused the PlayStation maker of sexism, according to court documents filed Tuesday. Axios first reported the filings.
Former security analyst Emma Majo filed a lawsuit against Sony for gender discrimination and wrongful termination in November 2021. Majo is seeking class-action status to include other employees impacted by sexism at the company. Sony filed to dismiss the complaint, citing a lack of specifics that prove “widespread intentional discrimination.”
On Tuesday, Majo’s lawyer filed statements of support from seven former PlayStation workers and one current employee. These women provided written statements of support detailing instances of sexism at the company and across multiple offices in the United States. The allegations described in these documents range from devaluing women’s ideas and discrimination toward mothers to sexual harassment and system struggles for women to get promoted.
Stephen Noel Ilg, Majo’s lawyer, said in an adjacent statement that several other women feared retaliation from Sony and “were too scared to speak up about what had occurred at the company.”
Marie Harrington, a former Sony Interactive senior director left Sony in 2019 due to “systemic sexism against females,” which she reported throughout her career and outlined in nine pages filed Tuesday. She pointed out instances where women were undervalued against men in “calibration sessions,” where leadership highlighted high performers at the company. In April, Harrington said that 70 workers were being reviewed during a calibration session, and only four were women. She also flagged an instance when she reported a man’s bullying behavior to his manager: “Can we
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