Scientist sues Utah startup, alleging she endured years of sexual banter and discrimination

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Scientist sues Utah startup, alleging she endured years of sexual banter and discrimination
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Women who worked at DiscGenics kept coming to her with concerns about “inappropriate jokes and inappropriate comments,” scientist Lara Silverman said.

in the tech industry — company policies that force sexual harassment claims out of public courts and into secret resolutions in arbitration.

She recognized the first major cultural issues at the company, she said, when she became pregnant with her first child in 2014. Lara Silverman, a former lead scientist at the startup DiscGenics, alleges she dealt with sexual banter and discrimination from the CEO and management. She has sued the company with Jeffrey Poole, its former chief financial officer; they alleged the company retaliated against them for complaining about misconduct.

Among other examples in the suit, she said a female employee came to her in tears in January 2021 and “stated that she was distraught after Flanagan made a joke about oral sex in a meeting. … and she was scared to be in the same room as Flanagan moving forward.” Poole was fired on June 4, 2021, and Silverman resigned about three weeks later, one of 11 women to leave the company between November 2020 and November 2021, according to the lawsuit. The women represented nearly one-third of DiscGenics’ staff, and approximately 65% of the womenAbout a week before her resignation, Silverman received a letter from Flanagan promising to change his behavior, the suit said.

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