re: #10 wrenchwench

She would not have been fired if she weren’t a woman, so she was fired for being a woman. If she ‘became a liability’, it was through no fault of her own. I think she has a case against him for sexual harassment as well as discrimination, based on what her employer is quoted as saying to her while she was working for him.

And if I’m not mistaken, aagcobb is an attorney, and the ‘but what do I know’ was tongue-in-cheek.

She has a case for sexual harassment, I agree, but I still maintain this case was rightly decided. If Dr. Knight had been gay (Iowa allows gay marriage) and his husband had been angry about his flirting with a male employee, he would have been equally within the law in letting that man go.

Also remember that he did not fire his assistant ‘for cause’ and in fact paid her a month’s severance and gave her a glowing recommendation. So this wasn’t one of those dishonest terminations we read about (and that I’ve been subject to).