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A Georgia federal jury has ordered Kennesaw State University GA to pay more than $1 million in a sex-bias lawsuit. The jury awarded $760,000 for lost wages and $300,000 for emotional damages to plaintiff Dr. Hillary Height Daw. The award is one of the largest ever against a university in the state.
Daw's lawsuit claimed the school discriminated against her based on sex and then retaliated against her when she complained. Daw taught music for 15 years at Kennesaw State and became the music department's only tenured woman ever.
She complained of disparity in pay in 1996 to the department head and he dismissed her concerns. She said that the department then took away some of her responsibilities and wrote unfavorable performance reports about her. Daw also sought a promotion, but it went instead to a man ...