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PLAINTIFF’S GENDER DISCRIMINATION SUIT SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DISMISSED.

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined plaintiff’s gender discrimination suit should not have been dismissed:

As ostensibly nondiscriminatory reasons for terminating plaintiff, defendants pointed to plaintiff’s alleged management deficiencies; her alleged insubordination, by, among other things, refusing a directive to extend her vacation; and her alleged concealment of her romantic relationship with a subordinate.

In response, plaintiff raised issues of fact as to pretext … . Among other things, plaintiff points out that her termination on June 30, 2011, represented a drastic shift from the favorable performance review which she received only three weeks earlier. Indeed, plaintiff was on vacation for nearly a week of that three-week time period. Nothing in the record explains why any defects in plaintiff’s management style, identified in her otherwise favorable performance review, suddenly warranted her termination. Defendants’ assertion that plaintiff was insubordinate and hostile is belied by the record, which shows nothing more than innocuous e-mail exchanges between plaintiff and her superior … during the several days prior to the termination. Finally, defendants’ assertion that plaintiff’s concealing of her relationship with her subordinate was a ground for termination is belied by, among other things, emails exchanged only a week earlier, demonstrating that the subordinate would be reporting to another manager, in order to avoid any appearance of impropriety.

Plaintiff has also pointed to evidence of gender bias, in the form of [her superior’s] holding women, including plaintiff, to a different standard than men in the workplace. Nor were these mere “stray remarks.” To the contrary, [her superior] told plaintiff that she lacked “emotional intelligence and empathy toward others,” which were perceived as shortcomings in her ability to manage her subordinates, and which were “amplified because [she was] in a high profile seat and female.” Barone v Emmis Communications Corp., 2017 NY Slip Op 04787, 1st Dept 6-13-17

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