Former United Way Executive Given Another Chance on Gender Claim

A former United Way Worldwide executive can’t pursue claims that she faced harassment and a hostile work environment because the last alleged incident falls outside Title VII’s statute of limitations, a federal judge said.

Lisa Bowman failed to properly allege that her gender was the but-for cause of a male co-worker’s alleged harassment during a 2019 call, Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr., of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, said in a Wednesday order dismissing without prejudice Bowman’s Title VII harassment claim. Although she established her gender may have been the but-for cause for some of ...