This occured at the NEA (the national teachers union). The teaching profession is predominantly female. I have a feeling that the NEA has a high percentage of women.
How much you want to be that the real reason for this lawsuit is a bunch of feminist women at the NEA wanting to tilt the playing field so that no male executive can ever dare to attempt to discipline a female subordinate? This would mean that only a female exec could be hired to supervise women (thus creating more demand for female execs over the short term, but also a long-term trend towrads outsourcing to places that did not have such an insane legal system)
You don't think that what they really want is to win enough money to be able to quit their jobs and post on DU all day?