A federal jury on Wednesday said that the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center had discriminated against two female pharmacy professors by paying them less than their male colleagues, the Amarillo Globe-News reported today.
The verdict, which said Texas Tech had violated the Equal Pay Act of 1963, also ordered the university to give the women a total of $58,000 in back pay. The jurors rejected the women’s assertions that they had been denied tenure because they are female, and a claim by one of the women, who is legally blind, that the university had failed to make a reasonable accommodation of her disability.
