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The San Francisco Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has found that there was "reasonable cause" to believe that a UC-Santa Barbara professor was a victim of sex discrimination when the school denied her tenure in 2003.
Since the EEOC received more than 26,000 complaints last year and agreed with only 6.4% of them, this is very good news for Laurie Ann Freeman, a rising star among contemporary political scientists who focus on Japan.
Freeman received enthusiastic support from her department prior to the birth of her two children. After taking advantage of the university's "family friendly" policies to stop the tenure clock to care for infants and young children, Freeman found her department increasingly critical. It denied her tenure in 2003. Despite glowing outside reviews and publication of a well-received book, she was forced to reapply for tenure, which she finally received in 2005.
Freeman was pleased to hear the EEOC's decision on ...