MOUNTAIN VIEW, California: As a young, female software engineer at male-dominated Google, Loretta Lee was slapped, groped and even had a co-worker pop up from beneath her desk one night and tell her she'd never know what he'd been doing under there, according to a lawsuit filed against the company.
The lawsuit comes as Silicon Valley's tech industry, dominated by white men, has been roiled by a series of sexual-misconduct scandals and gender-related upheavals as the #MeToo movement against sexual assault of women has prompted a nationwide cultural reckoning.
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