Legal Question in Discrimination Law in Virginia
Sexual Discrimination
For over a year I asked my employer about a managerial/supervisory position in which I was interested in. I was already doing part of the job, and wanted to do all of it. Everytime my employer told me that there wasn't room in the company for someone to be in that managerial/supervisory role. I finally got fed up with not being advanced in my job and left the company. Within 6 weeks of leaving the company they brought in a man to do the job I had been asking for, for almost a year. The man they brought in was a former employee of the company, and I don't doubt he could do the job. I handled part of the responsibilities for the job already, and during audits in the year I always came through without a single problem or issue. In addition, there are only 7 women that work within the organization of approximately 75 people, and none of the positions are management positions. I feel that the company purposely keeps women out of managerial/supervisory positions.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Re: Sexual Discrimination
You may feel any number of things regarding this former employer, including your sense that it somehow discriminates against women, but you will need more, however, in terms of palpable and verifiable evidence than what you've mentioned thus far in order to make a credible case for such discrimination.
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