‘Google executive favoured women staff over males,’ former employee claims in lawsuit

Former Google employee Marco Meier has filed a lawsuit against the company and one of its executives alleging discrimination against male employees. According to the suit, the Alphabet-owned tech major’s senior executive Marta Martinez led a campaign that targeted men to deny promotions, excluding them from meetings, and even gifting memberships to women-only professional organisations at Christmas. Meier, a former German pro-basketball player who worked on Google’s ads team for nearly 13 years and held roles including Global Business Leader and Head of Industry-Media Platforms, claims that male staff were labeled as “too aggressive and too competitive,” resulting in their systematic marginalisation and eventual termination under false pretenses. The lawsuit contends that these actions amount to gender-based discrimination in violation of equal employment policies.