Ellen Pao Loses Kleiner Perkins Gender-Discrimination Suit

A jury soundly rejected Ellen Pao’s claims of gender discrimination by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in a case that riveted Silicon Valley for weeks and exposed how women fare in the male-dominated world of venture capital.

The verdict followed testimony by two dozen witnesses who variously painted Kleiner as unfriendly to women and Pao as a difficult employee. The jury dismissed her claims that the firm where she worked for seven years valued and judged women and men according to different standards. Kleiner, which said 20 percent of its partners are women, stated it’s committed to diversity.