Facebook became embroiled in another controversy Tuesday, after the American Civil Liberties Union accused the company of giving employers a powerful tool to discriminate against women seeking work.
The complaint alleges that Facebook allowed employers to target job ads exclusively to men — that “they’re profiting from thousands of ads that are being hidden from women,” civil rights lawyer Peter Romer-Friedman of Outten & Golden told NPR.
Three women, from Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois, came forward on behalf of female and non-male Facebook users. They said in the complaint that they were denied certain job opportunities because they never saw the ads. Many of the postings, like those for mechanics or truck drivers, were in male-dominated fields.
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