Boeing's Women

BusinessWeek has uncovered some disturbing evidence of Boeing's treatment of their female employees and the ensuing coverup to hide evidence of wrongdoing. In 2000, 38 women took Boeing to court alleging pay discrimination. Boeing's response to the class action suit was to deny doing anything wrong, then withhold information from lawyers, the court, and even going so far as to have evidence destroyed. The evidence that Boeing tried to suppress, and later was forced to release, showed that Boeing knew that its hiring and rewarding practices singled women out and discriminated against them -- and further, Boeing did nothing about, suppressed the findings internally, because it was too expensive to fix their discriminatory practices. What I found most shocking about this was that Boeing female senior managers knew about this and supported it. They collaborated in sustaining Boeing's gender bias.