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Black Amazon manager sues tech giant over alleged discrimination, sexual harassment and assault
Charlotte Newman, who remains at the company and is based in Washington D.C., claims Amazon has a history of down-leveling Black employees. Author: Matthew Torres Updated: 4:54 PM EDT April 5, 2021
WASHINGTON Charlotte Newman still holds back tears when she recounts a work dinner that “spiraled” in January 2018.
The former economic policy advisor to Sen. Cory Booker had already been employed at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) department for a year, when she alleged a director put his left hand under the table and pressed on her lap “in proximity to her genitalia” before he grabbed and groped her upper thigh.
Consent classes must be carefully constructed
March 18, 2021 12.03am
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Great suggestions from Fiona Martin for teaching protective behaviours at preschool age and consent education in Year 7 (“Start consent classes by year 7: Liberal MP”, March 17). It will take more than inserts into the existing curriculum, however. Barriers such as funding for teacher training (not synthetic online courses), education of resistant elements in the community and a general acceptance of gender role education need to happen before all teachers feel confident to teach such necessary but controversial issues.
Vanessa Tennent, Oatley
As a former teacher, I can assure Martin that lessons taught at school cannot override lessons learnt at home, which begin long before formal schooling starts. Without appropriate role models and environment in the home, the effectiveness of lessons at school about consent, or bullying for that matter, will not overcome the serious socia
During an Amazon company banquet in 2018, a supervisor of Charlotte Newman, from her account, reached underneath the dinner table and groped her thigh.
As she was leaving another outing with co-workers several months later, Newman alleges the same supervisor grabbed her hair, yanked her braids and joked, “You can leave this behind.”
Newman, a 39-year-old Black woman, says such casual acts of sexual harassment are fostered at Amazon because company executives harbor negative misconceptions about African-American and female employees. Those entrenched stereotypes, she claims, are evident in the company’s lack of Black leadership.
Charlotte Newman (Photo: Twitter/Charlotte Newman)