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[quote=Anonymous]There is nothing, I repeat NOTHING subtle about this discrimination. Document it all and make sure that you have copies of the documentation somewhere other than your office email. Sit down with a lawyer and do some kind of deposition-type testimony. Video tape it if you can. Do not resign, even though this is terrible and you will likely be miserable.

Not the same at all, but my MIL just won a gender discrimination lawsuit last year. She was a municipal employee who experienced several of the things that you're describing, including overt references to her gender in connection with her job performance and organizational "shifts" and "business decisions" that impacted her negatively and were seemingly based on nothing. For example, after 5 years of glowing performance reviews and project successes (she was basically the economic director and under her direction, the municipality doubled its tourist and cultural revenue, plus other successes), she suddenly found that all of her work was being reviewed by one of her peers (not a supervisor but someone with the same title as her in a different department who was male and friendly with the new city manager, a self-described "good old boy). They also moved her office from a large office with a window and enough space to meet with vendors and clients to a small windowless office in the back of the building that was also being used to store office supplies. That move happened without her knowledge - she went home on a Friday and came in Monday morning to find that all of her stuff had been moved. When she complained, they said, "You have plenty of space, I don't know why you're getting so emotional." She then got a bad performance review, despite her numbers still being up and her subordinates still reporting favorably about her management, and was "let go for performance reasons" a few weeks later.

She sued and won about $300,000, which was basically the salary she lost and the retirement funds she had to spend to stay alive during the two years the suit took.[/quote]

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