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...Players compete in divisions based on age and gender. Giordano Benassi, who leads the eight-person Italian delegation, says that in this "game of strength" female participants must be protected. "For a small woman going against a big man, there would be a problem psychologically," he says...
Perhaps that explains why M.M.M.A. responded so aggressively to the charges. General counsel Schultz, a company vice president, denied the commission's allegations, calling them a rehash of the "old charges" contained in Benassi's civil suit...
After repeated appeals to management and to their United Auto Workers local brought no relief, several women employees sought out Patricia Benassi, a prominent Peoria lawyer experienced in labor-relations cases, who began filing complaints with the EEOC. Almost immediately, reprisals began. One complainant found her car scratched and defaced; another was forced off the road as she drove home from work. Anonymous callers made such threats as, "You better watch your back, bitch...
Finally, when no corrective action by Mitsubishi seemed forthcoming, the 29 women represented by Benassi joined in a civil suit against the company in December 1994 charging "relentless sex discrimination, sexual harassment, sexual abuse from male colleagues and, in many cases, from their male supervisors." Although all the sexist acts were allegedly committed by Americans, the suit charges that Mitsubishi's Japanese managers were complicitous by their complacency. Japan's manager society is far more sexist than America's. In Japan women are almost unheard of in management...
...Benassi of Sassuolo, Italy. In 1923, when she was eleven, she suffered acute peritonitis, and by the time a doctor was called he judged her beyond help. A nun at Eva's school, however, organized prayers to Neumann for healing and touched the girl's swollen abdomen with a picture of the bishop. That night the disease disappeared...