{"id":19731,"date":"2021-07-22T07:38:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T07:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/activision-blizzard-sued-by-california-over-frat-boy-culture"},"modified":"2024-07-22T02:19:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T02:19:01","slug":"activision-blizzard-sued-by-california-over-frat-boy-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/video-games\/activision-blizzard-sued-by-california-over-frat-boy-culture","title":{"rendered":"Activision Blizzard sued by California over “Frat Boy” culture"},"content":{"rendered":"

Activision Blizzard Inc is a household name amongst gamers and is globally known for its Call of Duty<\/a>, World of Warcraft<\/a> and Starcraft game franchises but recently came under fire after a lawsuit was filed by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), following an investigation lasting two years.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit was filed in the Superior Court of California County of Los Angeles and read that Activision Blizzard and its subsidiaries were being sued under the “Civil Rights and Equal Pay Act” for “injunctive and monetary relief and damages”. According to the suit, this follows the fostering of a “frat boy” culture by the company, in which female employees were alleged targets for sexual harassment, unequal pay and retaliation.<\/p>\n

Activision Blizzard sued for workplace discrimination<\/h2>\n

The lawsuit is lengthy and details several accounts of alleged unfairness and discrimination of the approximately 20% female workforce demographic that’s enough to make your stomach turn.<\/p>\n

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Activision Headquarters (Picture: Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The suit also details how the “pervasive frat boy workplace culture” sees male employees “drink copious amounts of alcohol as they crawl their way through various cubicles in the office and engage in inappropriate behaviour toward female employees”.<\/p>\n