She sued for pregnancy discrimination. Now she s battling Google s army of lawyers | Google | The Guardian
When Chelsey Glasson found out she was pregnant with her second child in 2019, she did not anticipate the first three years of her new baby s life would be overshadowed by an epic legal battle against a trillion-dollar company.
The 38-year-old sued Google, her former employer, in 2020 alleging she had been discriminated against while pregnant and witnessed others being treated similarly, and faced retaliation from her manager when she spoke up about it.
Since then, Glasson says, battling to win her case has become a nearly full-time job, one that s pitted her against a company with a global army of lawyers at the ready. Despite being represented by attorneys in Washington and partially backed by a not-for-profit group, the American Association of University Women, she finds herself putting in grueling hours preparing for her upcoming trial this year. She spends her nights, after her two kids are asleep, discovering documents and preparing for processes such as her recent deposition in March. The fight has affected her children s lives almost as much as her own, she says.
I suspect this is a very common form of discrimination.