The agreement ends a tortured legal battle that began after Carolee Brady applied for a job as a USIA magazine editor, only to be told that managers were seeking a man. Brady's complaint ballooned into a class-action lawsuit, with roughly 1,100 women alleging that they, too, lost opportunities because of their gender. Many said they were bypassed in favor of men with far less experience who scored poorly on hiring tests.
Good prosecutors know when to cut their losses and move on to the next case.
Apparently when the federal government was on the defensive, they couldn't figure out the same thing. . . . Such a broad-based, expensive settlement in government is almost unheard of. In the technical field, they said jobs were nearly nonexistent. One woman, a translator and journalist, contended she was turned down in favor of a man who worked as an encyclopedia salesman. Another, who had a doctorate and radio experience, said she lost out to the son of a Voice of America official.