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Did Columbia U renege on promises? (Newswatch).(1991 sex bias lawsuit)(Brief Article)
Although it made many promises to settle a 1991 sex bias lawsuit brought by a tenured female professor, Columbia University NY has broken its word and failed to live up to the promises, according to her new lawsuit seeking $1 million in damages. The AAUW legal advocacy fund recently contributed $15,000 to support it.
In 1991, Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky sued Columbia for equal pay with men. To settle the suit in 1995, Columbia promised to pay her a lump sum, almost double her salary, and financially support an endowed chair for her and a program she heads.
Now Columbia has quit financing her endowed chair and program as promised, and retaliated against her by moving her office and computers, damaging key equipment, she charged in the retaliation lawsuit. Columbia's actions put millions of dollars in contracts at risk by freezing her access to the research funds she had raised from the Sloan Foundation, UNESCO and others, she ...
- Committee Examines Sex Bias in Md. Courts; Fair Treatment of Women and Men Must...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Claudia Levy September 18, 1987 700+ words
...information on the existence and extent of sex bias in Maryland courts. Members of the committee...have begun investigations into the ways sex bias can affect court cases, court hiring...those states, committees concluded that sex bias was pervasive in the court systems, and...
- Medical School, Researcher Settle Sex Bias Lawsuit; Experts Say $900,000...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Kara Swisher March 18, 1994 700+ words
...improved ability to get damages in sex bias cases in the Civil Rights Act of 1991...assert them because they realize that sex bias has been costing them money," said Gloria Allred, a well-known sex bias attorney at the Los Angeles-based...
- Sex Bias Pervades Md. Courts, Panel Finds;Discrimination Reported by Litigants,...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Ed Bruske May 4, 1989 700+ words
...Caplan of Baltimore, chairman of the committee, called sex bias "perhaps one of the most serious and pervasive problems in...there were no women in the workplace," he said. The court sex-bias issue first emerged nationally in 1980 at the instigation of...
- U.S. Settles Sex Bias Suit For Record $508 Million.
- Magazine article from: Jet April 10, 2000 700+ words
...508 million to 1,100 women to settle the largest federal sex bias case since the Civil Rights Act was signed into law in 1964...the settlement. In 1984, the government was found guilty of sex bias in U.S. District Court in D.C. Since then, it filed...
- EAST EUROPEAN WOMEN ENDURE `RAMPANT SEX BIAS'.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) November 16, 1999 700+ words
...women in Russia and Eastern Europe have endured ``rampant sex bias'' as their formerly communist nations move to free-market...every situation, in every country studied, there is rampant sex bias in the workplace,'' said Anne Zollner of the Washington...
- His and her individualisms? Sex bias and individualism in psychologists'...
- The Journal of Psychology Fowers, Blaine J. Applegate, Brooks Tredinnick, Michael Slusher, Jason March 1, 1996 700+ words
...individualistic value bias among practicing psychologists. Sex bias has been recognized and studied even more widely over the last...examine the interaction between individualistic ideology and sex bias in psychologists' responses to case vignettes. Although most...
- Modesto Judge Overrules Records Act Challenge in Sex Bias Case.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 29, 2006 700+ words
...separate suit to try to force the City to release reports on sex bias at City hall related to their case. The judge disagreed with...Opportunity Officer Jason Mauga. Both reports found that there was sex bias in City government, and that Reed and Eggerman were discriminated...
- Sex-bias suit settled // Sanitary District agrees to hire 59 women as laborers
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Adrienne Drell January 10, 1986 700+ words
The Sanitary District, in an out-of-court settlement of a sex-bias suit, has agreed to hire 59 women as manual laborers over a four-year period and to reimburse those rejected for such work...
