Marilyn Simmons v. New Public School District No. Eight

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• holding that a school board president’s statements that “a woman can’t handle [the administrator’s] job” and that the employee was “a woman in a man’s job” are direct evidence of sex discrimination when the board voted not to renew the administrator’s contract
• refusing to apply the burden shifting analysis to a gender discrimination claim that was based on the non-renewal of an employment contract
• refusing to apply the burden shifting analysis to a gender discrimination claim that was based on the non-renewal of an employment contract
• applying the same standard to a plaintiffs claim under the ADA
• comments by decisionmaker sufficient to prove fourth element and also to provide direct evidence of gender discrimination
• school board president’s statements that plaintiff was “a woman in a man’s job” and that a woman “can’t handle” plaintiffs job were direct evidence of discrimination

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