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SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) - The woman behind a high-profile test sexism against a large venture capital firms in Silicon Valley testified Monday that a male colleague was "relentless" in their pursuit of it and cut the electronic chain letters and meetings when broke their relationship ,

Plaintiff Ellen Pao seemed calm and relaxed as he. The witness stand for the first time in the trial of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

The study highlighted the gender imbalance in venture capital and technology in Silicon Valley, where women are very poorly represented.

Investment companies elite with some of the multiple stacked graduates owner of the nation's schools like Harvard and Stanford successful are aggressively competing for the next Google or Amazon to support.

Lawyers for the 45-year-old Pao Kleiner Perkins as a club of old boys in which women were excluded from the Parties to the home of former Vice President Al Gore and presented by their male colleagues harassment and gross behavior like talking about described pornstars and a trip to the Playboy Mansion.

Pao seeks $ 16 million in damages. After claiming that he accepted a promotion because she is a woman, and then, after a complaint and the verdict shot in 2012, later

Kleiner Perkins has denied wrongdoing and said Pao do not get along with peers and poor results after they became a junior partner in the year of 2010.

In his testimony, said Pao, a book of poems by a senior partner in 2007, the drawings and poems by women was given pre-topics such as the bare needs of an older man for young women. The couple was also invited to dinner one weekend, but notes that his wife is out of town, he said.

"I thought it was strange, and it makes me uncomfortable," he said.

Pao admitted that the affair with her male colleagues, and said it was broken when he learned that he had lied about the state of their marriage.

She said later that his colleagues Decision on e-mails and meetings took revenge.

"He was relentless and finally told me that his wife had left him," said the jury Pao.

If the question of management, explains Senior Associate, as he met his wife in another company while he was married, and perhaps Pao could have the same result with his colleague, she testified.

Kleiner Perkins lawyers have tried as a chronic complainer Pao, the credit for the work carried out by a team, characterized collided with colleagues and twisted the facts and circumstances present to.

His lawyers tried Monday to oppose representation and establish credibility with the jury his client.

Steve Hirschfeld, a researcher hired by the company to the Board of bias address Pao, testified earlier in the day when she told him that her relationship with her male colleagues do not consensus - a confirmation Hirsch n Do not see the truth.

Kleiner Perkins said Pao not complain about the volume of poetry, when he received. The company also says that the book was bought by the main partner of the woman who gave Pao, and they misinterpreted the invitation to dinner.

Pao said he wrote a note to the company in 2012 and said that women treated differently, it seems that women under three partners were not eligible.

He also noted that the worker who allegedly sexually harassed to have.

Hirschfeld said he found that Pao was no discrimination or retaliation in Kleiner Perkins.

Pao, but says she was asked to leave the company and said it was not welcome back after the filing of the complaint and the subsequent examination.

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A study published last year from Babson College in Massachusetts found that women held only 6 percent of the socio-level positions. In venture capital firms to 139 in 2013, compared to 10 percent in 1999

John Doerr, a partner at Kleiner Perkins said earlier that 20 percent of the partners of the firm are women, and worked hard to attract more women.