In 2021, both Riot Games and Activision Blizzard settled a case in which an unknown number of women accused the companies of systematic gender discrimination. Both cases were handled by Rust Consulting, and through documents they submitted, we now know how many women are actually affected.
Axios can confirm that Riot Games will have to pay over $100 million to 1548 women, while Activision Blizzard will have to pay “several hundred”.
At Riot, each woman will receive on average between $2,500 and $5,000, but there is an upper limit of $40,000, which we assume some of the women will receive. In the original lawsuit we could read:
“Like many of Riot Games’ female employees, Plaintiffs have been denied equal pay and found their careers stifled because they are women. Moreover, Plaintiffs have also seen their working conditions negatively impacted because of the ongoing sexual harassment, misconduct, and bias which predominate the sexually-hostile working environment of Riot Games.”
