{"id":12585,"date":"2022-08-18T15:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/18\/nintendo-is-actively-investigating-reports-that-its-female-testers-face-harassment-and-discrimination\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T15:19:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:19:05","slug":"nintendo-is-actively-investigating-reports-that-its-female-testers-face-harassment-and-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/18\/nintendo-is-actively-investigating-reports-that-its-female-testers-face-harassment-and-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo is actively investigating reports that its female testers face harassment and discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/18\/23311202\/nintendo-harassment-and-discrimination-claims-investigation\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/18\/23311202\/nintendo-harassment-and-discrimination-claims-investigation<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"76.787423103213\">\n<p id=\"8svcXa\">Nintendo of America is <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/nintendo-of-america-sexual-harassment-doug-bowser-1849424139\">investigating reports<\/a> that female game testers were subject to discrimination and harassment, according to internal messages seen by <em>Kotaku<\/em>. Earlier this week, <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/nintendo-of-america-sexual-harassment-sexism-aerotek-1849414921\">the publication published a scathing report<\/a> exposing a toxic workplace culture at the company in which female staff and contractors were targeted by male colleagues.<\/p>\n<p id=\"zJGlyY\">According to <em>Kotaku<\/em>, Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser sent an email to employees acknowledging the claims on August 16th, the same day the report was released. In the message, Bowser stresses that the company is taking the allegations seriously, stating, \u201cWe have and will always investigate any allegations we become aware of, and we are actively investigating these most recent claims.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"e1DdeN\"><q>\u201cDoug Bowser stresses that the company is taking the allegations seriously\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"7PyJEm\">Bowser also highlighted that Nintendo has \u201cstrict policies designed to protect our employees and associates from inappropriate conduct and expect full compliance with these policies by all who work for or with us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p id=\"7Svs0C\">This isn\u2019t the first time a large gaming company has been exposed for cultivating a toxic workplace for female staff, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/7\/22\/22588215\/activision-blizzard-lawsuit-sexual-harassment-discrimination-pay\">Activision Blizzard being sued by California in July 2021<\/a> over a culture of \u201cconstant sexual harassment.\u201d Around the time that these reports surfaced last year, Nintendo\u2019s Bowser condemned them, <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/report-nintendo-finds-activisions-harassment-stories-d-1848106816\">stating in a company email<\/a>, \u201cI find these accounts distressing and disturbing, They run counter to my values as well as Nintendo\u2019s beliefs, values and policies.\u201d <\/p>\n<p id=\"3mBjbu\"><em>Kotaku<\/em>\u2019s report says women are underrepresented and underpaid among Nintendo\u2019s contractors compared to male peers, making up just 10 percent of the teams. In addition, a former employee claims that female Nintendo staff were overlooked for full-time work and progression opportunities. The report also detailed a \u201cfrat house\u201d workplace environment, with mentions that female staff were subjected to sexually inappropriate behavior and homophobia from male Nintendo employees.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-left\">\n<aside id=\"qRlWZ0\"><q>Allegations mention sexual remarks regarding prepubescent game characters and Pok\u00e9mon on a company group chat<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"sD2oyg\">Another allegation mentions a company group chat within Microsoft Teams in which a male member of staff justified attraction to a prepubescent game character and shared memes about which Pok\u00e9mon would be best to have sex with. One former employee within the report is quoted saying that \u201cNintendo was almost like a nightmare\u201d and that management warned her to be less outspoken after she reported inappropriate behavior to them.<\/p>\n<p id=\"gPwxk0\"><em>Kotaku<\/em>\u2019s report highlights workplace inequality between contracted and full-time employees, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/4\/20\/23034323\/nintendo-employee-fired-unionization-nlrb\">Nintendo has previously come under fire<\/a> for accusations of union busting following a filing with the National Labor Relations Board. Charges from this filing include discharging employees for joining a union and discussing working conditions and salaries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/18\/23311202\/nintendo-harassment-and-discrimination-claims-investigation\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/18\/23311202\/nintendo-harassment-and-discrimination-claims-investigation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Nintendo of America is investigating reports that female game testers were subject to discrimination and harassment, according to internal messages seen by Kotaku. Earlier this week, the publication published a scathing report exposing a toxic workplace culture at the company in which female staff and contractors were targeted by male colleagues. According to Kotaku, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-12585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-technology","tag-gaming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nintendo is actively investigating reports that its female testers face harassment and discrimination - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/18\/nintendo-is-actively-investigating-reports-that-its-female-testers-face-harassment-and-discrimination\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nintendo is actively investigating reports that its female testers face harassment and discrimination - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: Nintendo of America is investigating reports that female game testers were subject to discrimination and harassment, according to internal messages seen by Kotaku. 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