David Bonderman Resigns From Uber Board After Sexist Remark -
By MIKE ISAAC and SUSAN CHIRAJUNE 13, 2017
SAN FRANCISCO — David Bonderman, an Uber board member
and partner at private equity firm TPG, resigned from the board of the ride-hailing company after he made a disparaging remark about women at an Uber meeting on Tuesday.
“The study shows that men will dominate the conversation if there are more men than women in the group,
and they dominate by a lot,” Ms. Mendelberg said in an interview.
Their study is in line with multiple others drawing similar conclusions — men talk more than women, and men interrupt more than women.
Tali Mendelberg, professor of politics at Princeton University,
and Christopher Karpowitz, an associate professor of political science at Brigham Young University, conducted a study in 2012 concluding that men talked far more than women did at meetings.
After the staff meeting, employees angry at Mr. Bonderman’s remarks sent numerous emails to their managers
and to Liane Hornsey, Uber’s head of human resources, according to people with knowledge of the situation, who asked to remain anonymous because the details are confidential.
In a statement, he said his comment “came across in a way
that was the opposite of what I intended, but I understand the destructive effect it had, and I take full responsibility for that.”
Mr. Bonderman added: “I do not want my comments to create distraction as Uber works to build a culture of which we can be proud.
“When you have just two women in the group, those women are much more silent than men are
