Three employees of Amazon's corporate research and strategy branch brought a lawsuit against the organization, contending that gender discrimination and retribution had occurred. These workers allege that Amazon habitually allocated women workers lower titles for the very same roles as men have, but with greater titles and wages. in Snapchat
On Monday, Caroline Wilmuth, Katherine Schomer and Erin Combs - Amazon staffers operating within the company's corporate research and strategy division - sued their employer alleging gender discrimination and accusing the organization of retaliating after they complained of "chronic pay inequity issues." The complaint stated that the company was assigning lower job titles to females for similar roles held by men of higher titles and with larger salaries. Furthermore, they claimed Amazon was "regularly failing" to promote women, thus resulting in them performing similar work to men in higher job codes for less pay.
In late 2021, Wilmuth, Schomer and Combs raised their grievances to their managers and the Human Resources Department, initiating an investigation into whether they were being misclassified due to their gender. Wilmuth also stated that of the four researchers on her team, the three female workers were in lower-paid job categories, while the male researcher was in a higher-paid, higher-level role - making nearly 150% of Schomer's salary.
Not long after voicing their complaints, the trio allege that Amazon retaliated in the form of demotions, significantly reduced job scope and moving their direct reports to another team overseen by a male executive whom they had accused of gender discrimination. Wilmuth expressed her shock in a statement: "When I discovered I was being paid significantly less than men on my team, it stunned and devastated me. Amazon then made it worse after I complained by taking away the team that I founded and built from scratch - and demoting me to a position that had much less career advancement opportunity."
A subsequent investigation into Wilmuth's concerns found that Amazon's decision to shift the women's reports to another team had a "disparate impact" on them. The male researcher reportedly admitted that the reorganization was "discriminatory, done across gender lines" and had harmed Wilmuth, Schomer and Combs.
In a statement, Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser strongly refuted the lawsuit, claiming that the company "does not tolerate discrimination in the workplace" and takes all reported incidents of such behaviour seriously. The class-action case has been brought before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, and is being represented by the same New York law firm that represented a Google executive in her successful gender bias lawsuit, as well as Uber software engineers who sued the company for gender and racial discrimination.
In recent years, Amazon has been the target of gender and racial discrimination allegations from tech and corporate workers. Therefore, in 2021, the company initiated a review into its employee review system following accusations of racial bias, as well as a racial equity audit of its front-line workforce led by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch. Moreover, they opened an independent investigation into discrimination and bias within their cloud computing unit. Lastly, the company also announced a partnership with Snap to advertise shopping on Snapchat.
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