Twitter’s Gender-Bias Lawsuit Gets Swept Up in the Tech Talent Wars

By Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg News

Two hot issues in Silicon Valley — the lack of diversity and the battle for talent — have collided at Twitter Inc.

Less than a year after the Valley’s male-dominated culture gained worldwide attention in a discrimination case involving the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a similar suit against Twitter has also highlighted long-standing questions about how technology companies vie for employees.

Tina Huang, a former Twitter engineer, claims she was denied promotions and ultimately forced out because she’s a woman — and that an old colleague from Twitter can back her ...