Ex-TikTok executive claims she was fired for lacking ‘docility and meekness’
TikTok女高管控诉因不够“温顺”被解雇
Lawsuit from former global marketing head criticises corporate culture at popular app owned by China’s ByteDance
TikTok前全球营销主管凯蒂•普瑞斯提起诉讼，声称她由于年龄和性别的缘故遭受了差别对待。
TikTok’s former global marketing head Katie Puris has accused the company of unlawfully firing her because some company executives, including the chair of its Chinese parent company ByteDance, believed she “lacked the docility and meekness specifically required of female employees”.
TikTok前全球营销主管凯蒂•普瑞斯(Katie Puris)指控该公司非法解雇她，原因是几位公司高管——包括中国母公司字节跳动(ByteDance)的董事长——认为她“缺少女性员工应该独具的温顺乖巧”。
In a complaint filed on Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, Puris, who joined TikTok in late 2019, said she was “extraordinarily successful” during her employment at the short-form video company, but that she suffered discriminatory treatment due to her age and gender. She was ultimately fired in 2023, according to the filing.
在周四提交到曼哈顿联邦法院的起诉书中，于2019年年底加入TikTok的普瑞斯声称，她在这家短视频公司工作期间“特别有成就”，但她由于年龄和性别的缘故遭受了差别对待。根据诉状，她最终于2023年被解雇。
In particular, she claimed that ByteDance chair Lidong Zhang “had a stereotypical view of the way women should behave”, and that Puris “did not fit that stereotypical gender” mould as an experienced hire who advocated for her team’s successes.
她还特意提到，字节跳动董事长张利东“对女性该有的行为举止有一种刻板看法”，而普瑞斯作为一个有经验的雇员，宣扬自己团队取得的成功，“不符合那种刻板的性别”模式。
