The highest ranking female firefighter in Asheville, North Carolina, says she was repeatedly discriminated against because of her sex and fought to keep her job while battling breast cancer. The first female chief of a municipal fire department in the state says she briefly pondered suicide after years of sexual harassment. Joy Ponder and Susanna…
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Two high-ranking female firefighters in North Carolina are in the process of suing their former employers, alleging they were subjected to demeaning behavior that ultimately ended their careers, The Associated Press reported.Joy Ponder, the highest-ranking female firefighter in Asheville, filed a sex discrimination lawsuit in a North Carolina district court in November. Susanna Schmitt Williams, the first female chief of a municipal fire.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The highest ranking female firefighter in Asheville, North Carolina, says she was repeatedly discriminated against because of her sex and fought to keep her job while battling breast cancer. The first female chief of a municipal fire department in the state says she briefly pondered suicide after years of sexual harassment. Joy Ponder and Susanna Schmitt Williams are among numerous female fighters in the United States who have filed lawsuits against their employers alleging they were subjected to demeaning behavior that helped end their careers.