STATE : Sex-Discrimination Suit Pared Back
A federal judge today dismissed the core of the nation’s largest “comparable worth” lawsuit, a claim that the State of California has deliberately underpaid thousands of women in female-dominated state jobs.
U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled that the California State Employees Assn. had failed to prove deliberate sex discrimination in state salaries.
She allowed CSEA to submit new arguments on a claim that state policies had the effect of illegally holding down the salaries of female state employees. But that type of suit, without proof of discriminatory intent, has been made much more difficult to prove by a recent Supreme Court ruling.
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