The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced on Friday that Ephraim McDowell Health and Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center, headquartered in Danville, has been ordered to pay $335,000 and provide other relief to settle a sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit.

According to a release, Ephraim McDowell "rejected a female employee’s bid for promotion to an administrator position when the system’s CEO told her men work better with men and it was best to have a male in the position" in October 2021.

A male was then appointed to the position by the CEO, and the female to a lower-paying position in which she reported to the "newly promoted male."

The suit alleged that when the female employee filed a discrimination charge, she was retaliated against and fired in Decembe

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