The Nation - News from Sept. 22, 1985

Price Waterhouse committed illegal discrimination in deciding not to make a female manager a partner, a federal court ruled. U.S. District Judge Gerhard Gesell, in Washington, ruled that although the bias may not have been intended, the accounting firm broke the law by allowing sex stereotypes to influence its decision not to promote Ann Hopkins, a senior manager. Hopkins had charged that she was denied a partnership because of her assertive personality, a trait she said would be considered desirable in a male partner.