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The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals this week partially overturned a lower court s decision to dismiss an equal pay and discrimination lawsuit against the University of Oregon, therefore reviving the possibility for trial. The case was filed against the UO in 2017 by a professor who holds a doctorate in psychology, Jennifer Freyd, after discovering she made thousands of dollars less than her male colleagues in the same positions. Freyd has gained support from national advocacy and women s equity groups, along with colleagues in her department who say the equal pay issue still exists and has only worsened in the years after she filed her lawsuit. ....
Back in 2019, we told you about Jennifer Freyd, a professor at the University of Oregon who had sued the school and two University officials for gender discrimination, claiming that. ....
Jennifer Freyd After 33 years at the University of Oregon, Jennifer Freyd, professor of psychology, would like to accept the retirement package she and some of her senior colleagues were recently offered. Yet the university says she can’t accept the deal unless she drops her ongoing pay equity lawsuit. The clock is ticking: the deadline for accepting the package is Feb. 5. Freyd asked the university to grant her an exception to the requirement that would-be retirees release the university from all legal claims, as she is, to her knowledge, the only eligible faculty member currently suing the university. In other words, she argued in a recent open letter to Oregon’s Board of Trustees, the release of liability requirement is uniquely injurious to her and “a new form of discrimination for all those with a history of discrimination.” ....