This trial that just ended with Ellen Pao losing her complaint of bias against Kleiner Perkins is important for a number of reasons. All of those reasons can be found in the New York Times account of the complaint and the trial. What I found fascinating was the similarity to a play in progress for which I was a reader. A year or so ago, one night a week, I was a reader for a master play writing class. This means you show up and are given pages of the current work of a playwright to read in character with other such actors in order to give the playwright an opportunity to hear their work out loud. One of the plays for which I read many times was by an American woman of Asian decent about her time at a financial institution on Wall Street. It detailed how she was subjected to outright slander and humiliating situations by her male boss. How she would ask for consideration and be told that there was no consideration for females in this this world. The play was definitely first person though the names had been changed to protect the innocent. As the details played out on the page, it was mind-blowing to realize that in this day and age and education levels such discrimination was in full force. And as of today, nothing has changed.