Jurors in a sex discrimination trial against a capital firm of California's Silicon Valley will hear a second day of testimony from Ellen Pao, the junior partner behind a high-profile gender bias lawsuit. According to reports, On Tuesday, Ellen Pao will testify. The plaintiff had taken the witness stand on Monday, in the gender bias case against the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.

In the first day of testimony, Pao had testified that one of her male colleagues had cut her out of meetings and email chains after the end of their affair. The case against the colleague had drawn attention to gender imbalance at elite Silicon Valley investment companies.

According to some reports, the companies have employed some of the nation's most accomplished graduates, but women are underrepresented in technology sectors. Now, the plaintiff Pao has been seeking $16 million in damages. According to her, she was left deprived of a promotion just because she is not a man. She also said that when she had complained in 2012, she was fired by the company.

According to the Kleiner Perkins, there was no wrongdoing from the company's side. It also stated that Pao was fired not because she is a woman, but because she performed poorly after becoming a junior partner in 2010.

In a statement, Pao said that about seven years ago, a senior partner gave her a poetry book that had drawings of naked women and poems like as the longings of an older man for younger women. She also said that the partner had offered her dinner when his wife was not in town.

She further said, "I thought it was strange, and it made me uncomfortable". Pao confirmed that she had an affair with one of her male colleagues. According to her, she had broken her relationship with him when she came to know about his wife.