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Two Universities Resolve Sex-Discrimination Cases
Sex-discrimination cases at the Universities of Florida and Georgia reached resolution last summer and fall. The University of Florida and the Florida Board of Regents settled for an undisclosed amount with faculty member Maxine Margolis, who had filed suit after twice going through the university’s internal administrative procedures seeking redress. Both times, the university’s salary discrimination committee found that her salary lagged behind those of her male colleagues and that the gap was the result of discrimination. In 1990 the university’s president raised her salary, but by less than the committee recommended. In 1998 a provost rejected the committee’s recommendation that Margolis receive an additional raise.
The University of Georgia was ordered to pay $453,460 to former professor Linda Brooks following her victory in a gender discrimination lawsuit filed after she was denied tenure in 1993. Three men in the same department were awarded tenure in the same year, and Brooks argued that she and they were similarly qualified and that her tenure bid was denied because she is a woman. The university may appeal the decision, according to university lawyer Stephen Shewmaker, depending on the outcome of post-trial motions.
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