According to an expert report by the plaintiffs, though, from 2004 to 2012, women on average
filled only 60.5 percent of store manager jobs and 56.9 percent of department manager jobs.
The statements, most of them from women, are part of a class-action case
that includes 69,000 current or former employees and accuses Sterling of pay discrimination against women.
Ms. Sargent is among the hundreds of former employees of Sterling Jewelers, the parent of Kay Jewelers, Jared
and other jewelry retailers, whose statements about their experiences at the company were released on Feb. 26.
Donald Davison, a former manager at Osterman Jewelers in Mentor, Ohio, said his daughter’s boss
at a Kay store said to her, “If you don’t put out, you’ll be out,” according to his statement.
The complaint made its way to a district manager who later told her
that she should “grow some thick skin” and that the guard had been having “harmless fun,” according to a sworn written statement from Ms. Sargent.
Sterling Jewelers Suit Casts Light on Wider Policies Hurting Women -
By SUSAN ANTILLAMARCH 6, 2017
Sandra Sargent had finally had enough when a guard at Jared the Galleria of Jewelry in Crestview
Hills, Ky., waved his security scanning wand over her buttocks one day in 2007.
