Syracuse University Pays $3.7 Million to End Gender Bias Suit (1)

Syracuse University agreed to pay $3.7 million to end a gender discrimination lawsuit filed by five female faculty members, the upstate New York school and attorneys for the plaintiffs said.

The faculty members claimed the university maintained policies and practices that systematically paid women less and promoted them more slowly than their male counterparts, “even though they held equivalent positions and performed the same or substantially similar work with similar or even superior results.”

Their complaint was filed Friday at a New York State court in Brooklyn. The accord was jointly announced later in the day, without the university admitting ...