OraLee Branch, a malaria researcher who began work as an assistant professor at NYU in 2008, has sued the university’s School of Medicine for discrimination.
According to Branch’s suit, her work began to suffer after department chair and microbiologist Claudio Basilico allegedly began making sexist comments, including saying he wouldn’t weigh-in on a grant dispute because he didn’t want to “come between cat-fighting women,” (a rich assertion when so many men scientists have historically-unchecked egos) and that “women do not belong in science.”
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