For Amazon, this isn't the first controversy to flare up over workplace diversity. Last year, a transgender employee in Kentucky's warehouse filed a lawsuit against Amazon, claiming workplace discrimination and pay inequality. Roy Price, the former chief of Amazon Studios, also stepped down after being accused of sexual harassment. Earlier this year, a group of Amazon shareholders demanded more diversity at the board level, proposing a new requirement to consider women and minority candidates when selecting new board members. (Amazon later agreed to the change .) Amazon also has very little female representation in the upper ranks.