#abbott labs

Why is it not surprising that the creators of Lupron, the people pushing dysphoric, GNC and gay children into lifelong medical treatment with their puberty blockers has a sexist and corporate boy's club atmosphere that resulted in the bullying of a 55 year old woman (as well as all other women in the hospital)?

And yes, the suit alleges that it was strictly Abbott's atmosphere that was sexist.

Georgann Gillund started working for Little Canada-based St. Jude Medical in 2013. St. Jude was acquired by Abbott Labs in 2017, moving the company’s headquarters out of Minnesota. Gillund’s lawsuit makes the case that the working environment for her and other women at the company deteriorated after Abbott took over. She was fired from her job on March 15 when she was 55 years old.

“These men made broad accusations about how Gillund ‘intimidates her coworkers’ and repeated the baseless accusation that she had caused multiple individuals to leave. Again, Gillund asked for specifics about what she had done wrong but got no clear responses and certainly no clear description about inappropriate behavior and toward whom. Further, when Gillund requested advice as to how to improve, she was told that it was her responsibility to ‘figure it out’.”

“Ms. Gillund’s allegations go far beyond just her individual treatment at Abbott. We intend to expose a culture, created and condoned at the highest leadership levels, which favors men over women, and which punishes women who raise complaints seeking what the law requires – equal employment opportunity,” said Schaefer in a statement. “Many witnesses will step forward in this litigation to not only confirm the disgraceful and illegal treatment of my client but offer ‘me-too’ testimony that they were subject to the same systemic gender bias and retaliation.”

Abbott is a fortune 500 company so it will likely end up taking place out of courts but I'll keep following this case. I hope she and all the other women wronged by this are able to get justice and expose the sexist work environments they've been stuck in the last few years. I will say it is very telling that there were enough people leaving the company that they were able to try and use that against her too.

(via Coronavirus: FDA authorizes Abbott Labs' 5-minute COVID-19 test)

this is NOT a Theranos magic box that doesn't work. :D