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Economics prof sues Columbia U ... again.(Newswatch)(Brief Article)
You'd think that being forced into a hefty settlement with a prominent female economics professor would teach leaders at Columbia University NY a lesson. Not.
Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky is suing Columbia again, this time for $1 million, for retaliating against her after her 1991 lawsuit charging that she was paid 30% less than the men in her department.
She says that the school reneged on its promises to fund her research, give her a large suite of offices and endow a chair for her. Instead it froze her accounts, evicted her from her office and destroyed her research in the process.
At heart, the issue is about how academe should treat its women, ...
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