Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rhode Island Commission for Human Rights last week found the university guilty of the discrimination following a complaint by Jane Thompson, a psychiatric social worker...
...Thompson filed the complaint two years ago with the commission after discovering that she was earning less than her male colleagues for performing the same counseling work...
...three-man commission's unanimous ruling found that Thompson had been paid $286 per contract hour for the 1973-74 contract year while her two male colleagues had each received $350 and $472 during the same pay period...
...commission has already asked Gov. Phillip W. Noel to enforce its ruling by withholding $600,000 in aid to Brown's medical school and $100,000 in state scholarship funds until the school complies with the commission's order which calls upon Brown to adjust Thompson's current salary, as well as compensating her for lost earnings...
Harvard is now conducting a $4.1 million drive for the center, which has five tenured faculty members and seeks a total of seven. Thompson said. "This endowment will strengthen an already strong teaching and research center," he said...