The company Uber has taken off in a positive manner over the past couple years becoming a 50-billion-dollar company. They have changed the transportation industry towards multiple forms of transportation besides only being able to call a taxi.

Uber has now encountered a negative situation that has received a lot of criticism. An old engineer at Uber by the name of Susan Fowler, said that she was sexually harassed by her direct supervisor during her time at Uber and that after she reported those claims to the human resources department, they were ignored.

Mike Isaac, a journalist at the New York Times went all in to investigate the situation.

According to Isaac’s report, “Ms. Fowler’s account is another sign of Silicon Valley’s struggle with women’s issues and diversity in a male-dominated engineering environment. In 2015, the venture capital world was put under the microscope when Ellen Pao, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, claimed in a lawsuit that she was discriminated against at the blue-chip venture firm because of her gender — a case she lost.”

Sexual assault is no joke and needs to be handled extremely seriously. Individual situations such as Susan Fowlers’ should never go unnoticed and treated with extreme detail.

With prior history of women’s issues being unnoticed, Uber can capitalize on this common issue and create change by showing effort and importance on behalf of their company towards sexual assault and harassment.