The only female employee at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Walnut Street power plant was subjected to sexual discrimination, sexual harassment and retaliation when she complained about it, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court.
The absence of facilities for female employees forced Amy Gabel of Janesville to share a locker room and a bathroom at the plant with her male co-workers for two years after she was hired in June 2004 as a plant equipment operator.
According to Gabel’s suit, her co-workers subjected her to verbal and physical harassment of a sexual nature at work.