GENDER DISCRIMINATION AND RETALIATION AT JOHNS HOPKINS

UTMB officials should take a hard, really hard look at an article published today in The Maryland Daily Record titled "Doctor Sues Hopkins for Bias."  See the excerpt below.  An interesting point in the article is that Hopkins' own documentation reveals a bias.  Gosh, UTMB has documentation like that, too. 

After she complained, Fischer alleges, Colombani started working to have her removed or force her to leave.

She claims he would make false accusations against her, one of which led to a verbal confrontation in which Colombani “leaned over and screamed at Dr. Fischer asking why she would never ‘cry like a normal woman,’” according to the complaint.

Things escalated to the point that, after securing a National Institutes of Health grant for research, she was denied lab space and her rounds were increased so she had less time to devote to it, the lawsuit says. And, when she went through an in-house employee assistance program, Fischer claims the counselor divulged what was said at the meetings.

As a result, Fischer said she was later ordered to undergo treatment for “personality disorder.” Fischer said she objected to the implication, but attended the sessions as ordered.

“Defendants’ strategy is a classic example of the repugnant tactic of suggesting that a woman who complains of gender-based discrimination, bullying and harassment must be mentally unstable,” the lawsuit reads.

Fischer also contends that she sought help from Freischlag, but nothing was remedied. She claims that Freischlag initially said she would support her, but in the end sided with Colombani in the effort to force her to leave.

Comments

[Houston]

Boy, this sounds familiar. Women bashing, retailiation against productive women faculty, women unfriendly work environments, discrimination against women, women administrator figureheads as window dressing -- more than a coincidence maybe? Looks like UTMB's male administrators got a copy of Hopkins' playbook.

Stobo was at Johns Hopkins before assuming the presidency at UTMB.