Emerging American companies fighting sexual harassment with stricter policies

San Francisco
Christina Bergman made an unusual decision when she founded the company Antress-Ware in early 2016, when she introduced a clause against sexual harassment in the voting agreement between her company and investors.

The clause calls for an investigation to be opened if any director of the company's board of directors is charged with sexual harassment, if the investigation finds that there is a "reasonable probability" of such a fact, the director was dismissed.

Sexual harassment by emerging investors in the Silicon Valley spotlight after the detection of sexual misconduct has led to the resignation of prominent partners in the 500 start August and Benary capital.

"We wanted to provide a culture of inclusiveness and respect, supported by members of the governing bodies who respect those values," said Burjuman in an e-mail message. That is why we have created a mechanism that compels an investor to replace any manager of our Board of Directors if there is sexual harassment. "

In her last days, in Seattle in March 2016, Burjuman's own sexual harassment complaint was reported to have received an e-mail accusing an accomplice of a 20-year-old employee at a ceremony.

The company said on Tuesday that the partner, named Frank Artel, resigned from his post as a managing board member at the request of the company after "I learned of a complaint of misconduct" on July 5.