"After Ms. Puris-one of the most senior female executives in the United States-was invited to attend and participate in bi-weekly meetings with Lidong Zhang, the Chairman of ByteDance, she was subjected to disparate treatment and ultimately unlawfully terminated because Lidong Zhang and other corporate executives determined that Ms. Puris lacked the docility and meekness specifically required of female employees," the jury seeking filing states.
Once the exec learned that she was on the Beijing-based Zhang's "kill list," that her immediate team were under pressure "to make negative comments about her," lamented the long workday "996 culture, the ongoing "micromanagement," the overall treatment of female staffer and a supposed drunk come-on by an ad exec, and more, Puris asserts she had enough.
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