Bloomberg’s @ktbenner had an good take on the Pao trial and how women in tech are going through the same issues women on Wall Street did in the 1980s.

For example, both Pao and Kleiner agree that her boss, Randy Komisar, gave her a book by Leonard Cohen called “Book of Longing.” It contains erotic poetry and nude drawings, along with the usual melancholic fare that fans will recognize from his music. Pao didn’t ask for the book and took offense. Should she have lightened up, thrown the book on a shelf and kept working? Does the fact that she got mad mean that she didn’t have what she needed to succeed at Kleiner? If your gauge is the antiquated logic of 1980s Wall Street, that’s exactly what it means.

I love Leonard Cohen, but in the companies where I’ve worked no human resources professional would have found it appropriate for a boss to give me a copy of “Book of Longing.” The very idea is laughable. But in a court filing Kleiner defends Komisar’s gift. He thought the book was perfectly appropriate for Pao. His wife even chose it!