Yahoo executive accuses former company of gender discrimination

Yahoo is facing the second lawsuit this year relating to gender bias against men, according to the Daily Mail.

Scott Ard, a Senior Editorial Director who was sacked last year, accuses Yahoo’s management of using a performance management process that discriminated against men. He filed the lawsuit last week, stating the company’s actions violate employment law and civil rights.

He says he’d received positive performance ratings since he joined the company in 2011 until it introduced a quarterly performance review system. He claims his new ratings – based on a “stack ranking” system where employees received a score between 0.0 to 5.0 – were deemed unsatisfactory, and he was later dismissed.

Ard believes the company used the system to lay him off illegally, as well as more than 50 other male employees. He claims the process “permitted manipulation without oversight and accountability and was thus more arbitrary and discriminatory than the stack ranking used for a while by other employees."