Times-Union: Vassar agrees to $5 million settlement in gender pay discrimination lawsuit

July 31. 2026

The Times-Union quotes ERA Litigation Director Catherine Bendor in an article about settlement terms being reached in our gender pay discrimination class action lawsuit against Vassar College. (To bypass the paywall, view as a PDF.)

“This step reflects years of efforts by women faculty members at Vassar, first privately and then in court, to get Vassar to eliminate a gender-based pay gap of which the college has long been aware,” said Catherine Bendor, director of litigation at Equal Rights Advocates and co-counsel for the plaintiffs. “Our clients worked hard to achieve justice not only for themselves and their colleagues, but for all future women professors. We hope the terms of the proposed settlement, and the experience of this lawsuit, will result in Vassar appropriately recognizing the contributions of all of its women faculty.”

Read the article. (View as a PDF to bypass the paywall.)