UPS Women Sue for $250 Million, Alleging Systemic Job Bias (1)

United Parcel Service Inc. forces women to work under a double standard and holds them back with an “old boy’s club” culture in which they are paid less for equal work, denied the benefits of earned seniority, and run into a “dead end” when they try to advance, a proposed class lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco charges.

Women who are regarded as too feminine and those “who avail themselves of the company’s paid time off or flexible work schedule policy” to work part-time to care for family “are particularly vulnerable,” the suit says.

The suit seeks at least ...