Ellen Pao has given up her fight against Kleiner Perkins

A three-year-long legal battle came to a close earlier today, one that had come to symbolize Silicon Valley’s numerous issues with sexism. Ellen Pao filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against her former employer, Kleiner Perkins, back in 2012, alleging that the company denied her a promotion on the grounds that she was a woman. Kleiner Perkins, on the other hand, claimed that her failure to move up in the company was based on lack of merit, and the court ended up siding with Kleiner Perkins earlier this year. Pao immediately appealed the decision and promised to continue fighting, but she must have had a change of heart, because she announced earlier today that she’s dropping her appeal and paying Kleiner Perkins around $276,000 in legal fees.