Women at Microsoft Confront Its Worker-Friendly Image

  • Women claim tech giant paid them less, stalled promotions
  • Female engineers seek to band together in bias class action
Photographer: Mark Kauzlarich/Bloomberg
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Microsoft Corp. counts itself as a leader with policies promoting gender equality and balancing work and life.

But whatever progress the tech giant has made with equal-pay and family-friendly initiatives, it’s still fighting a lawsuit by women engineers and information technology specialists who claim they were treated for years like second-class citizens.