Associated Press story that's just come up.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/fc8d...break-email-shows-u-iowa-mandate-female-coach
University of Iowa athletics department administrators ordered a female be hired over male candidates for an assistant track coaching job regardless of qualifications, an internal email from the head coach alleges.
Attorneys for a male coach who says he was illegally passed over portrayed the email — which the coach's attorneys received last week as part of a lawsuit against the school— as a smoking gun that will help prove his gender discrimination allegations.
"It's in writing. The administration said, 'we want a female in that position'," said Brooke Timmer, an attorney for Mike Scott, now an assistant at Missouri State.
Timmer provided the June 4, 2013 email, which she had sought for nearly two years, exclusively to The Associated Press. In it, Head Coach Layne Anderson tells assistants that he had rewritten the position's job description in a way to attract more female candidates after earlier searches failed.
"It is once again largely driven by the mandate from the administration to hire a female (qualified to them being optional -- but not to myself or Wiz)," Anderson wrote, referring to program director Larry Wieczorek.
Anderson noted that one "ideal" male candidate had already been rejected by the administration.
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/fc8d...break-email-shows-u-iowa-mandate-female-coach
University of Iowa athletics department administrators ordered a female be hired over male candidates for an assistant track coaching job regardless of qualifications, an internal email from the head coach alleges.
Attorneys for a male coach who says he was illegally passed over portrayed the email — which the coach's attorneys received last week as part of a lawsuit against the school— as a smoking gun that will help prove his gender discrimination allegations.
"It's in writing. The administration said, 'we want a female in that position'," said Brooke Timmer, an attorney for Mike Scott, now an assistant at Missouri State.
Timmer provided the June 4, 2013 email, which she had sought for nearly two years, exclusively to The Associated Press. In it, Head Coach Layne Anderson tells assistants that he had rewritten the position's job description in a way to attract more female candidates after earlier searches failed.
"It is once again largely driven by the mandate from the administration to hire a female (qualified to them being optional -- but not to myself or Wiz)," Anderson wrote, referring to program director Larry Wieczorek.
Anderson noted that one "ideal" male candidate had already been rejected by the administration.
