Goldman Says Some Women in Gender Bias Class Must Arbitrate (1)

Goldman Sachs asked a federal judge to force more than 1,000 women from a gender discrimination class action to arbitrate their claims, but attorneys for the women say they shouldn’t be kept out of court.

At the root of the dispute in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York is a long-standing lawsuit alleging that the financial giant had a pattern of promotion and pay practices that created an unequal playing field for women, compared to their male peers.

Class certification was granted in the case in March 2018, when Judge Analisa Torres pointed to statistical ...