Eight More Women Add Accounts of Sexism At PlayStation To Class-Action Lawsuit

A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed by eight additional women, including former and current employees. 

It is a good news story. AxiosAccording to a report by, these claims will be combined with Emma Majo’s claims as an ex-Sony IT security analyst. She filed a lawsuit against the company last year, alleging that “Sony discriminated against female employees, including those who are female and those who identify as female, in compensation and promotion and subjects them to a work culture predominated by men.” 

Majo applied to the court in 2021 for approval. Majo stated that her suit was filed on behalf herself, all other women working at Sony and any others. In February of that year, Sony requested a judge to dismiss the case. Now, AxiosReports state that there have been eight additional claims against the U.S. company for sexism. These womens’ claims include demeaning comments, a lack of attention for their ideas and work, unwelcome advances, and a general sense that getting promoted within the company is harder for women, Axios writes. 

Marie Harrington is one of these 16-year veterans of Sony PlayStation. Her filing says there’s a lack of women considered for senior roles during “calibration sessions,” citing that during one session, only four women were considered for promotions compared to almost 70 men that were considered. Harrington says she heard comments about female candidates’ family lives in those sessions that weren’t made for applicable male candidates, too. 

Another one of the candidates said a third-party study found “a great imbalance in terms of employee distribution” amongst her team. Another, former program manager Kara Johnson, said, “I believe Sony is not equipped to appropriately handle toxic environments,” in her court filing, according to Axios. Johnson also shared the letter she wrote to her female colleagues after leaving Sony. The letter discussed how Johnson tried multiple times to tell superiors about gender bias, discrimination towards pregnant women and resistance from senior men in human resources to take action. 

Sony’s request for this lawsuit to be dismissed won’t be addressed until a hearing next month. 

More information is available here Axios’ full report. Learn how Sony requested a judge to drop the class-action suit.

[Source: Axios]