February 14, 2003

Minnesota System Agrees to Pay $500,000 to Settle Pay-Bias Dispute

By PIPER FOGG

The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System has reached a tentative settlement with a group of female faculty members at Minnesota State University at Mankato who had alleged in a class-action lawsuit that they were paid less than their male counterparts. Although the system did not admit to intentional discrimination, it agreed to pay the women a total of more than $500,000 in back pay and raises.

The lawsuit was filed in 1998 in federal district court in Minnesota and was

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