Case: Discrimination/Promotion (10th Cir.)

A gay Farmers Insurance Exchange employee was properly denied a trial on his claim that he was denied a promotion to account underwriter specialist because of illegal sex stereotyping that viewed him as failing to conform to traditional male stereotypes, rather than because the candidates selected for promotion were better qualified than him and he failed to display the necessary leadership skills, the Tenth Circuit ruled. A hiring manager’s remark that the employee might have a better chance for a future promotion that might not require “a leader” because there may be “a bunch of alphas” there wasn’t direct evidence ...