Case $3-$ Discrimination case at Amazon$$In $2022,$ Charlotte Newman, who was a senior manager in the Amazon Web Services $($AWS$)$ division, filed a lawsuit against Amazon and two of its employees. Charlotte claims to have been discriminated against and harassed.$$Before working at Amazon, Charlotte, an MBA Harvard graduate, worked in Capitol Hill in roles related to economic and financial services. When she began the selection and recruitment process to work at Amazon, she was applying to what Amazon calls a $$level $7$ role of Senior Manager, Financial Services, in which she would represent the organization before the financial sector in the US$,$ Canada and Mexico. However, Amazon did not offer her this position and instead offered her the $$level $6$ role of Public Policy Manager, which is a lower rank role in the organization and therefore has lower compensation. The hiring manager told her that this position carried out similar tasks but in the US only, and that there was no room for negotiation on compensation. Charlotte had some reservations about accepting the offer for decided at the end to take on the role.$$Charlotte claimed that she was qualified for the Level $7$ job and that other while male colleagues that were hire for Level $7$ jobs had less experience that she did. She also claimed that other Level $6$ employees had significantly less experience than she did. Charlotte describes that only a few months after her hiring she was performing Level $7$ and Level $8$ work, including public policy work in relation to Latin America. She claims she was performing task of levels above her such as $$devising strategy plans, formulating the company's approach to new regulations, serving as a project lead, meeting with senior business leaders, and securing meetings with senior officials, among others$.$Charlotte was promoted to a level $7$ role after almost $3$ years of joining Amazon. However, she claimed that white employees were promoted at a faster pace that her and other black employees. She pointed out that a white women hired at Level $6$ four months after her was promoted two levels $($from $6$ to $8)$ in the time she had been an employee at Amazon. Charlotte claims that Amazon frequently hires black employees at lower levels commensurate to their qualifications and that back employees wait longer periods of time for promotions compared to their white counterparts.$$In addition to this claim, Charlotte claims to have received discriminatory treatment and harassment by her manager and his boss $($on of the employees against whom she filed a claim$).$ Charlotte describes an environment in which the work of black employees was disparaged or discouraged from joining the Public Policy team. Examples of the treatment she received are:$$Her boss told her she was $$too direct$,$aggressive$,$just scary$.$Her manager and his boss complained about $$the personalities of other female employees$.$A white colleague told her it would be $$funny if $[$she$]$ took a picture with the $$Jambalaya$\text{'}$ wine bottle$.$A coworker told her she $$looked like a gorilla when trying on a black jacket$.$Charolotte$$s claim also describes the harassment she experienced from a colleague. A direct quote from the file claim states the following:$$Early on$,$ he gave her a gift of a notebook decorated by his daughter. When they had dinner on a business trip in October $2017,$ he called her $$beautiful$.$ On January $18,2018,$ he allegedly $$sexually assaulted and forcefully propositioned$$ her during a business dinner. She claims that he praised her in an $$over$-$the$-$top$$ way during dinner, repeatedly calling her $$great$.$ He got up to sit next to her and put his left hand on her lap, $$in proximity to her genitalia and on her inner thigh,$$ after which$6$he $$grabbed and groped the upper thigh of her right leg.$.$ After dinner, when she was waiting for an Uber, Maz $$badger$[$ed$]$ and implore$[$d$]$ her to go home with him to have sex.$$ She refused and told him the next day that his conduct crossed the line. Throughout the year and into $2019,$ she altered her behavior to avoid coming into contact with him. But she claims he sexually harassed her again on September $19,2019$ in Seattle, when they were at a hotel bar with colleagues. When Newman said she was leaving, He $$insisted that she stay, laughed, and yanked hard on her hair, $$ which was in long braids. He said, $$You can leave this behind,$$ while pulling her hair. Newman interprets this as $$an unmistakable mockery of $[$her$]$ hair as a Black woman.$($Please note that citations were left out in this quote for ease of reading$)$Charlotte filed a written complaint with HR about the harassment and discriminatory treatment. The internal investigation at Amazon found that indeed, her boss made stereotypical comments about black employees, but kept his position. The company did not assist her in avoiding contact with the harasser. Only after she filed a complaint with Washington D$.$C$$s Office of Human Rights against Amazon, was her harasser fired from Amazon