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Yonkers Times: Vassar College Agrees to Terms for Settling Gender Pay Discrimination Lawsuit

July 31. 2026


The Yonkers Times covered the latest update in our gender pay discrimination case against Vassar College on behalf of women full professors:

“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.”

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