How I Discovered Gender Discrimination

[pnwmom]

5. A friend of mine worked in a bank and, year after year,

when a new manager had to be appointed, she saw men brought in from outside to head the various groups. Meanwhile, her salary had been inching upwards.

Finally, she decided to risk her job by filing a complaint with the Equal Opportunity Commission, and they came in and investigated. In the end, they ordered the bank to advertise all openings within a group before going outside, and they ordered an increase in the women's salaries to bring them to parity with men -- 40% increases. Except that my friend was the only one who didn't get a raise! A year later, a new upper manager came in and almost doubled my friend's salary, so she won out in the end.

You're right -- discrimination is still very real. Even if the EOC hadn't come in, the women would still have realized they weren't getting offered promotions, but they wouldn't have known they were being paid 40% less for the same jobs!