The Chronicle News Blog: SUNY-Stony Brook Settles With Female Postdoc Who Alleged Gender Bias
Sherry M.J. Towers, a former postdoctoral fellow in physics who said her faculty supervisor denied her maternity leave and told her she had to return to work within days of giving birth, in 2003, has settled her sex-discrimination lawsuit against the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The settlement was announced today by the American Association of University Women, which supported Ms. Towers in her lawsuit. The terms of the settlement are confidential, the association said.
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