Uber director David Bonderman resigns over inappropriate comment about women

These days Uber Technologies Inc is on a path to transforming itself after a number of flaws emerged in the company’s culture. While the director of the company, David Bonderman was attending a meeting on the new practices being introduced in the company, he made a remark about women which caused an uproar and he eventually had to resign.

Bonderman’s remark came during an Uber all-staff meeting which was held on Tuesday to discuss how the company could do away with old practices and transform itself following a probe into sexual harassment at the company.

During that meeting, a female board member by the name of Arianna Huffington spoke to employees about the importance of adding more women to the board of directors.

“There’s a lot of data that shows when there’s one woman on the board, it’s much more likely that there will be a second woman on the board,” Huffington said.

In response, Bonderman said: “Actually, what it shows is that it’s much more likely to be more talking.”

The comment was made public through a recording of the meeting that was published by Yahoo. Later, an Uber spokesman verified the authenticity of the recording.

Bonderman’s comment caused an uproar in public, especially by women’s rights activists. A day later, Bonderman released a statement saying that he did not want his comments to create distraction for Uber, which is already trying to rid its culture of sexual harassment and discrimination. He therefore tendered his resignation to the board on Wednesday morning.

Later, he also sent out an email to Uber employees, apologizing for his action and calling his remarks “careless, inappropriate, and inexcusable” and “the opposite of what I intended.”

“I take full responsibility for that,” he said. “I need to hold myself to the same standards that we’re asking Uber to adopt.”

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