Bloomberg and his company have a history of issues with discrimination and harassment, especially towards pregnant women. In 1997, a sales executive at Bloomberg LP sued Mike Bloomberg for allegedly saying “kill it” when she told him about her pregnancy.3 When he learned another employee was pregnant, he allegedly said to her “what the hell did you do a thing like that for?”4
In 2006, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission brought a lawsuit against his company, Bloomberg L.P., for discriminating against women after they became pregnant and took maternity leave. 5 A plaintiff in this case stated: “After I informed Bloomberg L.P. that I had become pregnant in September of 2004, almost immediately I began to suffer demotions, decreases in compensation and retaliation after I complained to human resources.”6
