Sex discrimination ruling upheld by federal appeals court
Sheryl White slw at Thu Jul 21 09:17:18 EST 1994  Mary Polacco
(maryp at TEOSINTE.AGRON.MISSOURI.EDU) wrote:  : July 11, 1994
the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals (St Louis, MO) upheld : the
jury verdict of June 1993, that the University of Missouri was :
guilty of sex discrimination in the case captioned Mary L.
Polacco v : The Curators of the University of Missouri. While
there was a (Much detail deleted for the sake of bandwidth)
CONGRATULATIONS!!!  I can imagine how grueling and hellish this
whole  episode must have been, you deserve a round of applause
(and more) for  pursuing this.  I certainly hope the award was
enough to make this  institution think twice before repeating
this sort of thing.  Sadly, I  have seen exactly your situation
AT LEAST 3 times...and have had serious  thoughts about
discontinuing my scientific career because of it.  I can't  tell
you how discouraging it is to see bright and capable women
scientists repeatedly underpaid (w