DeCLUE v. CENTRAL ILLINOIS LIGHT CO.

No. 00-1117.

223 F.3d 434 (2000)

Audrey Jo DeCLUE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CENTRAL ILLINOIS LIGHT COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 2, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol Hansen Posegate, David O. Edwards (argued), Giffin, Winning, Cohen & Bodewes, Springfield, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Lawrence J. Murphy (argued), Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett, Kalamazoo, MI, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before BAUER, POSNER, and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

This suit under Title VII by a female lineman for an electric company requires us to decide whether an employer's failure to alter working conditions that just happen, without any discriminatory intent, to bear more heavily on its female than on its male employees can be an actionable form of sexual harassment.

The plaintiff, who became an apprentice lineman in 1994, complains about various acts of sexual harassment that occurred beginning...

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