Completely obvious conclusion here and it makes one wonder why the author spent so much time talking about how this is bad for business.
Please, everyone do HN, and your careers, a huge favor by flagging this article and NOT commenting.
One of the right's favorite techniques for pushing against regulation is by giving people the right of private action through lawsuit. But now we see that if you actually use that right, well gosh, you're hurting women everywhere.
I don't know about the rest of you, but when an action is bad for 'class X which I happen to belong to' but right for me personally, I'm still going to take the action that's right for me personally. I don't know why Ellen Pao (or women in general, or any other group) should be expected to behave any differently.
A weak column by a normally strong writer.
If Kleiner Perkins practices sexism and/or sexual harassment, then they brought theses costs on themselves.
Forget the suit costing these things. The practice of sexism and sexual harassment by themselves costs "time, image, and distraction from its main work, finding value."
