Surviving the Workday

I consider this yet another reason not to buy diamonds: EEOC sues Sterling Jewelers for discrimination against women:

The EEOC found that Sterling Jewelers “pays its female retail sales employees less than male employees performing equal work and denies female employees promotional opportunities for which they are qualified.”

“Sterling Jewelers intentionally discriminates against female retail sales employees by maintaining a system for making promotion and compensation decisions that is excessively subjective, and through which Sterling Jewelers has permitted or encouraged managers to deny female employees equal access to promotion opportunities and the same compensation paid to similarly situated male employees,” the EEOC stated in its lawsuit.

I suppose we’ll see what happens in court. You may not have heard of Sterling Jewelers, but they are the parent company to Kay Jewelers and Jared the Galleria of Jewelry (Has anyone heard of Jared? That’s a strange business name).