[picture_frame]http://governmentstartup.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Finn-Molly-181x232.jpg[/picture_frame]This from the Washington Post:

[info] A former Booz Allen Hamilton partner, who once was the company’s highest-ranking female employee, is suing the McLean-based contractor, alleging that the company fired her because of her sex and that it intentionally excludes women from high-level leadership positions. Molly Finn, who long worked on Booz Allen’s environmental business, has filed a sex discrimination suit against the company and some of its top officials — including chief executive, Chairman and President Ralph W. Shrader — in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia’s civil division. [/info]

<strong>The link to the full filing is <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a title="Finn Complaint" href="legaltimes.typepad.com/files/finn-complaint.pdf" target="_blank">here</a></span>:</strong>

Among the interesting tidbits within:

[info] Until she was fired, Ms. Finn was Booz Allen Hamiton's highest ranking female partner. Over the course of her twenty-four year career, she performance evaluations consistently praised her as, "a partner who is working at the top of her game." [/info]

[info] In the few years before she was fired, Ms. Finn led teams to win contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars for Booz Allen. [/info]

[info] Booz Allen CEO Ralph Shrader openly bristled at "pro-woman, feminist things" that Ms. Finn would say, and also openly questioned her ability to maintain her role as partner as a single parent, though no male single parent was ever asked the same question. [/info]

[info] At the time of her firing, there were 11 members of the leadership team, and all of them were men. Additionally, CEO Ralph Shrader would frequently organize golf trips using the company plane for male up and coming partners, but never invited female partners. [/info]

Definitely an interesting case, and one to follow. Ms. Finn's allegations seem to have a lot of merit and supporting information. Depending on the outcome and any further details that emerge, may presage a decline in Booz Allen's reputation as a top government contractor.