San Diego Reader Hit with Gender Discrimination Lawsuit

The San Diego Reader is being sued by three female former employees in its sales department for gender discrimination, sexual harassment and wrongful termination. Kelly Bonelli, Amy McKibben and Beth Wexler all say publisher Jim Holman fostered a “boys club” environment at the paper–which only became worse with the hiring of John-Paul Franklin as sales manager in 2008.

San Diego CityBeat‘s Dave Maass has the story.

“For many years, women seemed to be tolerated, but not equal to men,” the lawsuit states.

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