Ellen Pao’s Gender-Bias Odyssey Ends as Kleiner Drops Judgment $276k Legal Fees

No. Pao lost.

1) Pao lost the case and as a result was found to owe (part) of KP's legal bills. 2) KP has filled something with the court indicating that they don't need enforcement of that any more. Indicating either Pao paid them, or they came to an agreement to not get paid in full in exchange for Pao not appealing or related things like agreeing to not discuss them further publicly.

All the court filings really indicate is that KP considers the matter closed.

> anyone that has worked in an office environment with women present can attest to the fact that women still are not in equal standing with their male peers.

This is certainly not true. I've worked in many offices with women who were treated with respect, excelled at their role and were recognized as such.

If you have problems in your workplace you should report them, not generalize them to everyone's workplace.

Ellen Pao is not the figurehead any movement should rally behind. Between this and her husband's fraud, people who actually care about gender equality shouldn't have touched the case with a ten-foot pole. It was fishy business from the outset.

If MRAs see it as a victory, that's because their opponents made such a big deal out of this case. A little bit of foresight on their part would have made it a non-issue.

Regardless of how many of one group of people are mistreated, it is not a given that anyone from that group that claims mistreatment is being truthful. Sometimes people who seek attention will pick an issue that many think is beyond reproach because they know they will have a guaranteed support group. People get raped everyday and it is not very PC to question the validity of such a claim. Yet people have been found to make false rape claims. People get discriminated against everyday and it is not very PC to question it. But people have been found to fabricate (or exaggerate) stories. Usually when people come out and start to question a claim, they just get lumped into the "haters" group. They are labeled as "part of the problem." But often those questioning are the only ones that actually care about the truth.

Amusing but sadly apt. The most interesting aspect of this case was the extreme difference between how it was reported and what the jury found to be factual.

It went so far that the NYT ended up editing stories after they were posted and admitting to changing their strategy to no longer report "just the facts":

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2015/07/19/ny-ti...

So many outlets uniformly reported that Pao WAS the victim of gender discrimination and she WAS on a crusade to represent women in tech. Not an exaggeration, those thing were actually being said.

I have yet to see any of the outlets that reported this angle backtrack, even after the verdict came out against Pao.

The Guardian is doing very well. Thier articles/journalists have a left world view and do not pretend they are neutral.

I don't agree with a lot of their editorial opinions, but I can respect their strategy. It is refreshing compared to the NYT and other media organizations that pretend they are unbiased/neutral, while promoting some sort of specific world view.