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Lawsuit: Kansas “Encouraged” Rowers Raped by Football Player to Cheer at Games

Kansas is currently being sued by two former rowers who say they were raped by the same football player. The player was investigated and expelled, but in their lawsuits both women say the university still violated Title IX in many ways. They claim that they suffered retaliation from the rowing coaches after reporting what happened; that Kansas ignored a history of sexual assault reports from …


Qualcomm to Pay $19.5 Million After Claims Women Are Kept Under the Glass Ceiling

Qualcomm has agreed to settle a gender discrimination lawsuit following accusations of bias against women. The deal, which will cost Qualcomm $19.5 million in compensation claims, settles accusations that the tech giant offered fewer chances of promotion to female employees — and paid them less to boot. Sanford Heisler represented female Qualcomm employees in a class-action lawsuit.


Lawsuit Filed Against Naples for Age, Sex Discrimination

A federal class action lawsuit says the City of Naples used an unwritten policy of targeting older female workers for termination when the city discriminated against and fired three veteran female employees. The Naples Daily News reports Susan Fabbrini, Karen Kateley and Jill Orstad claim they were victims of a years-old practice at the city to fire …


New York Times Boss Sued Over Alleged Ageist, Racist and Sexist Hiring Practices

Mark Thompson, the chief executive of the New York Times and former director-general of the BBC, is facing a multimillion-dollar class action lawsuit alleging that he introduced a culture of “deplorable discrimination” based on age, race and gender at the newspaper. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two black female employees in their sixties in New York on Thursday, claims that under Thompson’s …


New Analysis Offers More Evidence Against Student Evaluations of Teaching

There’s mounting evidence suggesting that student evaluations of teaching are unreliable. But are these evaluations, commonly referred to as SET, so bad that they’re actually better at gauging students’ gender bias and grade expectations than they are at measuring teaching effectiveness? A new paper argues that’s the case, and that evaluations are biased against female instructors in particular …


New Analysis Offers More Evidence Against Student Evaluations of Teaching

There’s mounting evidence suggesting that student evaluations of teaching are unreliable. But are these evaluations, commonly referred to as SET, so bad that they’re actually better at gauging students’ gender bias and grade expectations than they are at measuring teaching effectiveness? A new paper argues that’s the case, and that evaluations are biased against female instructors in particular …