Google employee who led protest against sexual harassment quits, here’s why

San Francisco: Founder of Google’s “Open Research Group”, Meredith Whittaker, who led employee protests against sexual harassment and Google’s secret work for China, has quit her job because of the internal retaliation she faced at work following the protests.
A software engineer at Google named Chris Lau confirmed Whittaker’s exit from the company on Tuesday and tweeted, “Today is @mer__edith’s final day at Google. Watching her experience as a whistleblower at Google and a victim of retaliation cannot signal good things for how AI institutions will react to negative criticism. #NotOkGoogle.”
During her tenure, not only did Whittaker lead protests at Google against its involvement with the Chinese government and military, she also organised the massive walkout last November to protest against how Google handles sexual harassment and misconduct allegations, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday. The November walkout was joined by over 20,000 Google employees.