Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...count that dealt with financial compensation. And the six-member panel, after two days of deliberations, found discrimination in the University's handling of the case and awarded Walters $75,000 in damages, ruling that Harvard had broken its contract with the former Facilities Maintenance worker by ignoring her sexual harassment complaints...
Gilmore said she planned to appeal the judge's decisions because Walters had not achieved her main goal in the case, which is to force Harvard to establish better sexual harassment prevention procedures. To do this, the judge would have to award Walters "injunctive relief," one of the five claims which Garrity dismissed in court...
Walters said Harvard's sexual discrimination procedures were not satisfactory, stating that "to this day, Harvard does not have a training procedure" for introducing women into traditionally all-male fields. Walters was the second woman to work for Facilities Maintenance when she was hired...
...Mere discrimination on the basis of sex does not connote sexual harassment," Garrity said in court...
...might say that Judge Garrity has a blind spot whan it comes to sexual discrimination. Every woman's group in the country will line up with us in our appeal," Gilmore said...