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But in the aviation industry in general, men outnumber women roughly eight to one, Based on census data compiled by Data USA More women are sharing stories of sexism and harassment at work. As Ms. Kosak said, women working as interns and seeking full-time employment may be particularly vulnerable to harassment and other forms of discrimination, especially when anti-sexual harassment training is inadequate. Employees say human relations departments, including SpaceX, are not always quick to discipline or fire employees who are the subject of investigation.

Women at other space companies have also described discriminatory workplace dynamics. In September, a group of 21 current and former employees of the Jeff Bezos-owned space company Blue Origin In an article about Lioness, she wrote that the company is full of sexism. and retaliated against those who spoke out about security issues. The company denied the accusations.

Ms. Kosak said in an interview that she felt compelled to go public with her experience at SpaceX after seeing the article about Blue Origin written by Alexandra Abrams, the company’s former head of employee communications, who was fired by Blue Origin in 2019. .

In an interview on 8 November, Kosak said she spoke to the company’s human resources chief Ms. Shotwell and Brian Bjelde about her complaint about the man she said abused her in 2018 and other sexual discrimination complaints. , but made no progress. “It was a meeting where I talked to them, they talked to me and we all broke up and that’s it,” she said.

When Ms Kosak resigned on November 22, she said the man who touched her in 2018 still works at SpaceX. The man’s LinkedIn profile shows he’s still working for the company.

Julia CrowleyFarenga interned at SpaceX from 2015 to 2017 when she was a student at Purdue University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He accused SpaceX of retaliating in 2020 after he reported disturbing interactions with his manager, who scheduled performance meetings longer than his male colleagues and repeatedly asked and commented on his dating life. Another manager said she let him move to a different department. But according to the lawsuit, she says she learned that when she applied for a job in 2018, the second manager blocked her from getting an offer despite her high performance scores. Ms. CrowleyFarenga and SpaceX settled the case earlier this year.

The former intern, who continued to work for the company for five years, said she had witnessed and heard about sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior. While staying in the same room with other women during her internships in 2016 and 2017, “half of them had stories about situations that made them uncomfortable,” she said.