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Catholic College Accused of Discriminating Against Fired Professor

Buffalo News, Trocaire Accused of Sexual, Age, Gender Bias:

Trocaire College is being accused of discriminating against a faculty member who taught natural sciences and was fired in 2009. The state Division of Human Rights has found “probable cause” that the Catholic college in South Buffalo discriminated against Dr. Csaba Marosan because of his age, gender, national origin and sexual orientation. …

Marosan, a former cancer researcher who had taught at Trocaire since 2002, told investigators he was treated differently because he is a 51-year-old heterosexual male, and his superiors were looking to hire young, gay men.

See also National Law Journal, More Men Are Filing Sexual Discrimination Suits:

The macho man image is dead in some workplaces.

So say employment attorneys, whose reaction to the recent Jimmy Fallon sex discrimination scandal — in which a stage manager claims that he was fired by the comedian and replaced by a less qualified woman — was essentially, "no surprise." In a complaint filed July 23 with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, NBC stagehand Paul Tarascio claims that he lost his job because Fallon "just prefers to take direction from a woman." …

According to EEOC, the percentage of sexual harassment claims filed by men doubled from 8% to 16% of all claims, from 1990 to 2009. Harassment aside, EEOC and private attorneys say they're also witnessing more men suing over women getting more favorable treatment than men in the workplace.

Update:  ABC News, Buffalo College Professor Claims Discrimination Because He's Straight


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