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Lawmakers grill Fresno on sex bias in sports.(NEWSWATCH)
The California Senate is looking into gender discrimination at the Fresno campus following an almost $6 million award to Fresno's former women's volleyball coach, who sued the school for sex discrimination.
With two other Fresno athletics department gender discrimination cases headed to court this fall, the campus is under scrutiny. Fresno district state senator Dean Florez, from the new Senate Select Committee on Gender Discrimination and Title IX Implementation, wrote to Chancellor Charles Reed expressing concern about "the recent epidemic of discrimination against women."
Reed denied that was the case both in writing and at a legislative hearing, but Florez remained unconvinced: "This review is somewhat ...
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...affairs, has called this a "ground-breaking proposal," which establishes "a public policy decision that gender discrimination on the access to and supply of goods and services is unacceptable," although she noted that it had not been...
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...broader public awareness of workplace gender discrimination and how it occurs. It should make...and what we can do to ensure that gender discrimination finds no home in our workplaces...all about to learn vividly about gender discrimination on the job. Outside some small...
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...representing her case, after reading it had filed a gender-discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart. That suit, granted class...action status, it would be the latest in a string of gender-discrimination lawsuits filed against Fortune 500 companies, some of...
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- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Levy, Melissa Baker, Adrienne June 23, 2004 700+ words
...California judge granted class-action status to a national gender discrimination claim that could include more than 1.6 million women...similar class actions have been filed in Los Angeles. Gender discrimination suits: - The case certified as a class action Monday...
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- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) March 23, 1999 700+ words
...discrimination. ``I have always believed that contemporary gender discrimination within universities is part reality and part perception...report ``are the most forward-looking statements on gender discrimination that I've read by a high-ranking administrator in...
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- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Fong, Tillie October 1, 1998 700+ words
...empower women in an institution that's been plagued with gender discrimination,'' said her attorney, Gilbert M. Roman. Tichenor...compensatory and punitive damages. This is the second gender discrimination lawsuit brought against the school this year. In April...
- Sex-bias suit settled for $15M: C.H. Robinson admits no liability; women...
- Newspaper article from: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN) September 20, 2006 700+ words
...share in a $15 million settlement ordered by a federal judge Tuesday, ending a 4-year-old case alleging gender discrimination in pay and promotion. A total of 231 women at the Eden Prairie-based freight-service company who were part...
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- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) April 20, 1994 700+ words
...joined Blackmun's opinion but wrote a separate statement, admonished that ``today's important blow against gender discrimination is not costless.'' O'Connor, who in 1981 became the court's first woman justice, noted that ``one...
