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Compliance February 12, 2002
Female Sales Execs Sue Combined Insurance
December 14, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Ten current
and former female sales executives have filed a sexual
discrimination suit against Combined Insurance Company of
America, claiming male managers harassed them and rejected
them for promotions.
Reported by editors@plansponsor.com
The suit, filed in US District Court against the Chicago-based subsidiary of Aon Corp., said Combined’s discrimination was so pervasive that the corporate atmosphere “encourages a culture of sex harassment and oppression,” according to Crain’s Chicago Business.
According to the suit, Combined managers:
- used demeaning physical descriptions to rate female job candidates
- instructed others not to hire women with children
- routinely promoted men to management jobs more frequently than women.
With a “feeble” sexual harassment rule in place, the suit said none of 12 divisional sales managers are female and only three of its 76 regional managers are women.
– Fred Schneyer editors@plansponsor.com