Drug Enforcement Agency 'Repeatedly, Purposefully' Discriminated Against Women Agents

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By ARIANE de VOGUE
May 26, 2011

It took her 20 years, but Ann Garcia, a retired special agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, finally won her battle against her former employer.

In 1992, Garcia brought a lawsuit against the DEA, arguing that she and some 200 other female agents had tried repeatedly to obtain plum overseas assignments but were blocked because the agency discriminated against them based on their sex.

Late last month, a federal administrative judge ruled that the DEA had "repeatedly and purposefully" discriminated against the class of female agents in the early '90s, and that the women had been treated less favorably than their male counterparts at the DEA.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/drug-enforcement-agency-discriminated-female-agents-court-found/story?id=13688229

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1. Awww, you could knock me over with a feather, law enforcement being kind of macho?

Who knew?