It sounds as if the company you worked for4 didn't understand affirmative actiion either, Rigs... Sounds like pure discrimination to me...

BTW, there was at least one Supreme Court rukling in the last year or so related to pay discrimination, i.e. same job done by different sexes... The woman in the case was sueing because she learned well after the fact (like a couple years) that her male counterparts had been paid more... The Supremes told her "Tough beans, Baby... You should have known the men were making more and now it's been too long since you left the job for discrimination to be considered..." That was the crux of it even though the management of the company had a policy of not allowing employees to know what each other made...

Sounds like a purdy stinky ruling to me...

B~