WeWork Anti-Pregnancy Case Ensnaring Berrent Appalls The Wing

The founders of The Wing, a co-working company dedicated to female empowerment, expressed shock after one of the startup’s directors was named in a pregnancy discrimination case last week against WeWork.

Jennifer Berrent, WeWork’s chief legal officer and a director of The Wing, is listed as a defendant in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission case being brought by Medina Bardhi, a WeWork employee for more than five years who was ousted as Chief Executive Officer Adam Neumann’s chief of staff.

“As the founders of a company whose mission is to advance women and as mothers ourselves, we find ...