Ohio State Defeats Cancer Researcher’s Sex Bias, Equal Pay Suit

Ohio State University shut down a medical school associate professor’s sex discrimination and equal pay claims when a federal judge ruled the worker lacks sufficient evidence to go to trial.

The professor failed to show that OSU gave her a lower raise than a male colleague because she’s a woman or because she’d already sought an equity review of her salary, the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio said. Although a male professor earned significantly more than she did, the school established that the discrepancy was due to his extra duties, not her gender, the Monday ...