Ex-Bloomberg editor alleges gender discrimination

Christine Staiti, an editor and 15-year veteran of Bloomberg News, alleges she was wrongly let go less than a month after complaining to her boss about the “exclusively male” makeup of important editorial positions, reports Kevin Dugan of the New York Post.

Dugan writes, “Staiti was a party to an EEOC complaint about alleged demotions and pay cuts handed to women returning from maternity leave. The suit was tossed last year.

“In her court filing, Staiti claims she was given fewer hours on a less prestigious beat after her 2005 maternity leave.

“‘What I learned was that the Small Cap team on which I was placed was effectively the ‘mommy track’ team,’ Staiti wrote in her affidavit, which was anonymously mailed to The Post.

“Staiti later ended up as an interim editor of a team that covered education — but was axed in 2015 during broad layoffs.

“‘I was the only person on the Education team who was terminated,’ she wrote, adding that the decision to move her to interim editor was ‘nothing more than a pretext for discrimination and retaliation.’

“Both Staiti and Bloomberg declined comment.”

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