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What
kind of discrimination? See associated
article.
- Plain
old discrimination
- Discrimination
by sexual harassment
- Discrimination
by sex segregation
- Working
while female
- Discrimination
against mothers
Employer |
Discrimination
Charged |
Award |
Morgan
Stanley, New York, N.Y.
Year:
2004
|
Failure
to promote, unequal pay
Type
of Action: Settlement |
$54
million |
Abercrombie
& Fitch, United States
Year:
2004
|
Refusal
or failure to hire and promote: sex, race, national
origin
Type
of Action:
Consent Decree |
$50
million |
American
Express
Financial Advisors, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.
Year:
2002
|
4,000-person
class action, age and sex discrimination
Type
of Action: Settlement |
$31
million |
Los
Angeles County Police Department, California
Year:
2002
|
Race
and sex discrimination, unequal pay (5,000 female
officers)
Type
of Action: Class Action Jury Award |
$240
million in back pay, pensions, and raises |
Voice
of America, U.S. Information Agency
Year:
2000
|
Failure
to hire or promote women
Type
of Action: Settlement |
$543
million |
Pacific
Bell, Nevada Bell, United States
Year:
1999
|
Denied
pension credit during pregnancy or maternity leave
(10,000 employees)
Type
of Action: Settlement |
$25
million |
Verizon
(formerly Bell Atlantic and NYNEX), United States
Year:
2002
|
Denied
pension credit during pregnancy or maternity leave
(12,500 workers)
Type
of Action: Settlement |
$25
million (estimated) |
Winn-Dixie,
Jacksonville, Florida
Year:
1999
|
Failure
to hire and promote women, minorities
Type of Action: Class Action Settlement |
$33
million |
Home
Depot, Western states
Year:
1997
|
Denied
training, promotions
Type
of Action: Settlement |
$87.5
million |
Publix
Super Markets, Florida
Year:
1997
|
Failure
to promote
Type
of Action: Settlement with Consent Decree |
$81.5
million and court oversight |
UPS,
Des Moines, Iowa
Year:
1998
|
Sexual
harassment
Type
of Action:
Jury Award |
$80.7
million, reduced to $800,000
under federal damages cap |
Lawrence
Livermore Labs (UC Regents), California
Year:
2003
|
Unequal
pay (3,200 women)
Type
of Action: Settlement |
$18 million |
CBS
Broadcasting, Inc., New York, N.Y.
Year:
2000
|
Denied
promotions, training, assignments, overtime
Type
of Action: Settlement |
$8
million |
Texaco,
United States
Year:
1999
|
Unequal
pay (186 female administrators)
Type
of Action:
OFCCP Review |
$3.1
million |
U.S.
Capitol, Washington, D.C.
Year:
2001
|
Unequal
pay (300 female custodians)
Type
of Action: Settlement |
$2.5
million |
Selected
lawsuits from the book, Getting Even,
by Evelyn Murphy with E.J. Graff
By
the same author:
Sex
Discrimination: What should you do now?
Are
You Paid As Much As A Man If He Had Your Job?
About
Author:
Evelyn Murphy is the former Lt. Governor of Massachusetts—the
first woman in the state’s 200 year history to hold
a constitutional office. Evelyn Murphy is Founder and
President of The WAGE Project, Inc. and Resident Scholar
in the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis
University where she researched Getting Even: Why
Women Don’t Get Paid Like Men and What to Do About
It, by Evelyn Murphy with E.J. Graff, published by
Simon & Schuster in October 2005. The WAGE Project
is a national organization dedicated to getting women
paid like men.
About
the Writer:
E.J. Graff, a resident scholar at the Brandeis
Women’s Studies Research Center, is an author and
journalist. Her work appears in such publications as The
New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles
Times, Ms., The Nation, The New Republic, The Village
Voice, Salon.com, The Women’s Review of Books,
and in more than a dozen anthologies. She is a senior
correspondent for The American Prospect.
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It
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