Case Western Reserve U. Settles Sex-Bias Lawsuit

Case Western Reserve University has settled a sex-discrimination lawsuit brought by a former biology professor who claimed that she had been unfairly denied tenure by her all-male department.

Carol A. Stepien, a respected researcher who had published more than 30 articles and had won hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants, was turned down twice for tenure. After being forced out at Case Western, in 2000, she took a job at nearby Cleveland State University, where she is director of

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