'Too ugly' banker wins £15million

[emad]

By Bill Condie, Evening Standard
7 April 2005

A top Wall Street executive has won almost £15.5 million in damages from banking group UBS in one of the largest ever sex discrimination awards to an individual.

Laura Zubulake, 44, a former director for the bank's Asian shares sales desk in New York, sued the Swiss financial giant after being told by a male executive she was too "old and ugly and she can't do the job".

She was fired in 2001 from a job she had begun in 1999.

The jury in Manhattan decided she should receive £4.8 million in compensation and a further £10.7 million in punitive damages.

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/17768344?source=Evening%20Standard

[Guy_Montag]

1. Surely we need to pic to judge for ourselves.

:shrug:

[emad]

2. Google up Laura Zubulake and this is all you get:

[ET Awful]

3. Hmmm. I wonder if there's a reason no photos are available?

:evilgrin:

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

5. Hope you've got $15 million on hand, dude.

[OKNancy]

4. And...

if she were what you judge to be "old and ugly" then what?
Sigh.

:grr:

[Guy_Montag]

6. Don't take it too seriously

At the end of the day, she's done all right out of it.

If anyone wants to pay me $15m to call me too old & ugly, I'll take it. Actually if anyone wants to pay me $15 to call me too old & ugly I'll take that too.

[Rainbowreflect]

7. So the fact that she won her law suit makes it ok to

judge people on age or attractiveness?
The true ugliness in this country & the world is the ugliness is so many peoples hearts, minds & words.

[Guy_Montag]

8. Actually I find people earning such large amounts

fairly offensive. What makes it worse is that they earn it for moving money around, not for designing/producing anything.

[demgurl]

10. rainbow.....

I totally agree with you. One of the best quotes I ever heard was this:

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness."
Author:Audrey Hepburn, when asked about her beauty secrets

I think that rings true and try to live by that.

[Straight Shooter]

9. I don't care what she looks like. I want to know what HE looks like.

Mr. Politeness, the "male executive" with the silver tongue :eyes:

[smirkymonkey]

11. If the standard of "too old and ugly" applied to male bankers,

there wouldn't be any left.