Women Sue Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Washington: Sixteen women have sued the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) accusing it of running a “good-old-boy network” at its training academy that discriminates against females, in some cases because of race and disabilities in addition to gender. Male instructors at the academy in Quantico, Virginia, exposed the women beginning in 2015 to a hostile work environment, sexual harassment and inappropriate jokes, according to the lawsuit filed on Wednesday. One woman said that an instructor referred to an African-American female trainee as “spaghetti head”, a reference to her braids. The woman also said training agents made repeated sexual advances, The New York Times reported. “The real purpose of the suit is to change the culture of the FBI,” said David J. Shaffer, the lawyer for the women. (IANS)

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