Under fire Activision Blizzard exec Frances Townsend steps down from company’s women’s network

Under fire Activision Blizzard chief compliance officer Frances Townsend has stepped down from the company’s women’s network.

Townsend stepped down from the position of executive sponsor of Activision-Blizzard-King Women’s Network on 23rd July, the company confirmed to The Washington Post.

That’s the same day Townsend held a listening session on a recorded Zoom call with the women at Blizzard to hear their stories, following her heavily-criticised internal email that called the claims made by the State of California’s discrimination lawsuit “a distorted and untrue picture of our company”.

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