Marie Harrington, a former Sony Interactive senior director who left the company in 2019 due to “systemic sexism against females,” reported in a nine-page report outlining her career that female candidates were frequently undervalued in comparison to male ones during “calibration sessions.” Harrington pointed out that during one such session in April 2019, only four out of 70 employees being considered for promotion to senior roles were women.
She attached to her filing a 2018 email she sent to higher-ups reporting bullying by a man asking, “Can we address this before PlayStation has its own national headline?” citing a New York Times article about women protesting gender discrimination at Nike. According to Polygon, she also alleged that men at Sony would rank female employees based on their “hotness,” police clothing they deem distracting, shared porn during lunch, and required her to use “a storage room with a broken lock directly off the entrance lobby” instead of a private lactation room she requested after having twins in 2005.
Kara Johnson, a former program manager who left in 2021, said that 10 women left Sony’s Rancho Bernardo, California office within four months prior to her departure. Her filing included a letter she shared with female employees citing repeated attempts to notify superiors about gender bias as well as a senior man in HR failing to intervene on those incidents. “I don’t think Sony is equipped to appropriately handle toxic environments,” she said in her statement.
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