A federal judge ruled New York City discriminated against women bridge painters by hiring only men and letting them do business as a “boys club” where lewd sexual images and cartoons were displayed at their lockers.
The Associated Press reports, Judge William Pauley III of United States District Court in Manhattan made the ruling in a discrimination lawsuit the federal government initiated against the city and its Transportation Department. Pauley said the city turned down women with more experience as painters than men who were hired. The judge said, “This was unvarnished sex discrimination.”
The court mandated the city hire four women who applied for jobs as painters but were rejected, and to return them back pay. The judge said he agreed with the ruling but is withholding final judgment on the penalty until a hearing later in May.
The judge added it was clear to the city in spring 1999 that some male bridge painters would not welcome women to their job sites when a female supervisor discovered sexually explicit materials at a Brooklyn trailer that had lockers used by male painters. (workersxzcompxzkit)
Pauley said the case proceeded without statistical evidence “other than the elephant in the room” — the fact the city had never brought on a female bridge painter for its staff of approximately 40 in-house painters.
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