My spouse is VP of HR for a Fortune 100 company.
Prior to this job she was a VP of HR within one of the Big 3 automakers.
Although this particular example may be fabricated, there are more egregious recent stories out there.
Examples I’ve heard in past year;
* A manager that only sent women to a specific required training course because the men were too busy.
* A director that refused to hire women and actively tried to move women out of his department.
* A manager that had too much to drink on a work trip and started hitting on a female that reported to him.
* A director that filed a reverse discrimination claim in HR that he was passed over for a job that went to a woman. The woman had more years of service, an advanced degree above his, and had higher evaluation scores.
And many more.
With millions of people out there, there are a lot these cases happen.
Thank you for your post, one of the few working from actual info rather than knee-jerk speculation. I was about to press the "Neanderthal" button on this thread.