Gender Discrimination This Week

The University of Missouri at Kansas City will pay a total of $1.1-million to two female workers to settle a lawsuit against the university for doing nothing to stop the two men who ran their laboratory from sexually harassing women there, John Gravois reports in today’s Chronicle. Read more.

Meanwhile, in California, legislators will investigate whether there is widespread gender discrimination in the California State University system, according to an item on The Chronicle’s News Blog about an Associated Press article. The inquiry comes on the heels of a ruling reached this Monday ordering CSU at Fresno to pay $5.85-million in damages to Lindy Vivas, a former women’s volleyball coach who had sued the university for sex discrimination. Two other gender-bias lawsuits filed by former female employees in Fresno State’s athletics program are expected to head to trial this year.