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Female Yahoo executive sued, accused of sexually harassing female employee

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Female Yahoo executive sued, accused of sexually harassing female employee


PUBLISHED : Sunday, 13 July, 2014, 6:32am
UPDATED : Sunday, 13 July, 2014, 6:32am

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Maria Zhang: coercion denied

A senior female Yahoo executive has been sued in California by a woman who worked under her and is accusing her former boss of sexual harassment and wrongful termination.

Maria Zhang, a senior director of engineering at Yahoo Mobile, has been sued by Nan Shi, who worked as a principal software engineer in Yahoo from February last year, according to a complaint filed in a California court last Tuesday.

The complaint alleges that Zhang coerced Shi to have oral and digital sex with her on multiple occasions in Sunnyvale, California, and told Shi she would have a "bright future" at Yahoo if she had sex with her.

Shi is seeking monetary as well as punitive damages. The lawsuit also names Yahoo as a defendant.

"There is absolutely no basis or truth to the allegations against Maria Zhang. Maria is an exemplary Yahoo executive and we intend to fight vigorously to clear her name," a Yahoo representative said.

Zhang founded her own mobile company, Alike, which was acquired by Yahoo last year. She also worked at Microsoft and Zillow before joining Yahoo, according to her LinkedIn profile.

In the complaint, Shi accuses Zhang of unfairly downgrading her performance reviews for the second and third quarters of 2013.

The lawsuit alleges that the company's human-resources personnel refused to conduct an investigation when Shi complained about her direct supervisor's advances.

Instead, according to the complaint, Shi was put on unpaid leave and eventually terminated from her position.

Shi, who was born in China, said she did not report the assaults to police or to Yahoo because she was worried that publicly going after Zhang could mean the end of her career. But after finally stopping Zhang's advances, she says the supervisor began to "retaliate" by giving her poor performance evaluations.

Finally, this past spring, Shi reported the sexual assaults to Yahoo's human-resources department.

In 2012, GeekWire website named Zhang "Geek of the Week" for her work on an app she developed.

 
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