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Labor/Employment

Mar. 11, 2015

Pao touts abilities, unfair treatment in testimony at gender discrimination trial

In her first day on the witness stand in her gender discrimination trial against venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, Ellen Pao portrayed herself as a capable employee who complained only due to unfair treatment.


By Laura Hautala


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - Taking the witness stand in her gender discrimination trial against the prominent venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers on Monday, Ellen Pao portrayed herself as a capable employee who complained only because of unfair treatment.


"I was unhappy with the culture at Kleiner Perkins," Pao told the jury. Her complaints, which started in 2007, were meant to ...

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