Yahoo Fights In-House Bias Claim

A fight, now unfolding before the EEOC, offers a rare look at the tensions that can arise in a legal department around race and gender and the way that a department responds. One of Yahoo's lawyers -- a black woman named Eulonda Skyles -- claims her bosses discriminated against her after she came back from a 2005 maternity leave. Although an internal investigation found the charges "meritless," Yahoo subsequently made changes to its legal department that appear to address some of the issues raised by Skyles.