Uber Investigating Sexual Harassment Claims by Ex-Employee -<br />The chief executive of Uber on Sunday opened an internal investigation into claims of sexual harassment made by a former engineer at the company.<br />The engineer, Susan Fowler, said that she was sexually harassed by her direct supervisor during her time at Uber and<br />that after she reported those claims to the human resources department, they were ignored.<br />In 2015, the venture capital world was put under the microscope when Ellen Pao, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, claimed in a lawsuit<br />that she was discriminated against at the blue-chip venture firm because of her gender — a case she lost.<br />had stellar performance reviews from his superiors)<br />and they wouldn’t feel comfortable punishing him for what was probably just an innocent mistake on his part.”<br />Ms. Fowler left Uber in December and this year joined Stripe, a payments processing start-up.<br />Hours after Ms. Fowler’s post, Travis Kalanick, Uber’s chief executive, said it was the first time the issue had come to his attention.
