{"id":10107,"date":"2023-05-22T16:37:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T14:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/uber-suspends-diversity-chief-over-dont-call-me-karen-events\/"},"modified":"2023-05-22T16:37:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T14:37:48","slug":"uber-suspends-diversity-chief-over-dont-call-me-karen-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/uber-suspends-diversity-chief-over-dont-call-me-karen-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber suspends diversity chief over \u2018Don\u2019t Call Me Karen\u2019 events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bo Young Lee faced criticism for Zoom sessions that focused on white women\u2019s experience of \u2018Karen\u2019 stereotype of entitlement<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/uber\">Uber<\/a> has suspended its head of diversity, equity and inclusion after Black and Hispanic employees complained about the workplace events she moderated exploring the experience of white American women under the title \u201cDon\u2019t Call Me Karen\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The ride-hailing app has confirmed that it has asked Bo Young Lee, who has led its DEI department for five years, to take a leave of absence while the company works out \u201cnext steps\u201d. Her suspension is the latest wave of chaos to strike the $72bn company over its corporate culture.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/may\/22\/uber-suspends-diversity-chief-karen-bo-young-lee\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f2ee97861b0c47e49fcb78b6d984e67a3ac40caa\/0_83_4000_2399\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=dee33d08bf1c55decebc97dfba366899\" title=\"Uber suspends diversity chief over \u2018Don\u2019t Call Me Karen\u2019 events\" \/>Bo Young Lee faced criticism for Zoom sessions that focused on white women\u2019s experience of \u2018Karen\u2019 stereotype of entitlement<br \/>\nUber has suspended its head of diversity, equity and inclusion after Black and Hispanic employees complained about the workplace events she moderated exploring the experience of white American women under the title \u201cDon\u2019t Call Me Karen\u201d.<br \/>\nThe ride-hailing app has confirmed that it has asked Bo Young Lee, who has led its DEI department for five years, to take a leave of absence while the company works out \u201cnext steps\u201d. Her suspension is the latest wave of chaos to strike the $72bn company over its corporate culture. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bo Young Lee faced criticism for Zoom sessions that focused on white women\u2019s experience of \u2018Karen\u2019 stereotype of entitlement Uber has suspended its head of diversity, equity and inclusion after Black and Hispanic employees complained about the workplace events she moderated exploring the experience of white American women under the title \u201cDon\u2019t Call Me Karen\u201d. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/22\/uber-suspends-diversity-chief-over-dont-call-me-karen-events\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uber suspends diversity chief over \u2018Don\u2019t Call Me Karen\u2019 events<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}