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Financial deal in Boeing lawsuit By JAMES WALLACE, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
The suit said she was an hourly worker in the tool and wire shops. It claims she was treated differently than men less qualified and in similar positions with regard to overtime opportunities, training and class experiences, and requirements for job promotion.

"She has been told that men get the overtime opportunity because they must support families," the suit said.

Beck was the only woman in her shop for nearly six years, according to the suit.

"When she reported for one of her assignments," according to the suit, "one of defendants' managers confirmed a shop steward's admission that she was 'brought to this shop to warm a seat.' Whenever she complained about gender-biased treatment, she ceased to get any significant job assignments and instead, consistent with what she had been told, she like other women got to 'sweep.' "

Male co-workers talked in her presence about female co-workers' anatomy, the suit said. Male co-workers, including one promoted to supervisor, told her they would like to come to her house and have sex with her, the suit claimed.

The suit said Beck was "shunned and ostracized, in retaliation for confronting Boeing about its illegal practices.

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