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EEOC accuses Bloomberg of discriminating against pregnant women

The federal government on Thursday sued Bloomberg L.P., a news and financial services company, saying it discriminated against women who became pregnant and took maternity leave, according to an Associated Press story.

The AP story states, “In a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said the New York-based company, which has 9,000 employees in 125 offices world-wide, engaged in a pattern of demoting and reducing the pay of women after they announced they were pregnant.

“Some women were replaced by more junior male employees and were excluded from management meetings and subjected to stereotyping about their abilities to do work while they were tending to family and caregiver responsibilities, the EEOC said.

“It said complaints made by the women to Bloomberg’s human-resources department were dismissed.”

Read more here. Talking Biz News has a copy of the six-page lawsuit for those interested in seeing it. E-mail, and I will send it.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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  • Maybe the lawsuit has merit. I always thought Bloomberg discriminated equally against everybody. And, yes, I realize that doesn't make sense, but that doesn't make it not true!!!!

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