New York City’s Department of Transportation committed “unvarnished” sex discrimination against women by refusing to hire them as bridge painters, a federal judge ruled yesterday.

Southern District Judge William H. Pauley III determined after a trial that evidence “reveals a municipal division in America’s largest city that refuses to hire women, in spite of societal norms, sound business practice, and city, state and federal law.”

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