Twitter sued for ‘unfairly targeting’ women in layoffs

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December 9, 2022

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In brief: Two women who lost their jobs at Twitter during its recent layoffs have filed a discrimination lawsuit saying the company “disproportionately targeted” female employees in its cuts.

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Ella Sagar Ella Sagar is a reporter for The Media Leader and leads our audio and out-of-home coverage. She joined in September 2021 and has a gold standard NCTJ. She previously wrote for the South West Londoner, Ealing Times, and The Hillingdon Times. At the University of Leeds, she received a First Class Honours Degree in French and Spanish with distinction in speaking and during her time there regularly presented radio shows on Leeds Student Radio, wrote for the student paper The Gryphon and was editor of Her Campus Leeds.

Two women who lost their jobs at Twitter during its recent layoffs have filed a discrimination lawsuit saying the company “disproportionately targeted” female employees in its cuts.

The suit was filed on Wednesday in San Francisco federal court and claimed that when Twitter let go of half of its workforce, around 3,700 staff, 57% were female workers compared to 47% male staff.

It also stated this rose to 67% of women in engineering roles that lost their jobs, compared to 48% of men.

Following his part-leveraged $44bn takeover of the company, Elon Musk has made widespread layoffs in an attempt to cut costs, with debt repayments soon to be added to its balance sheet.