GEORGIA
The Georgia equestrian team finds itself embroiled in controversy this month, as a lawsuit has been filed against the state Board of Regents.
Per a report from Macon.com, a former assistant coach claims she was fired for being pregnant.
Per the lawsuit, Alexandra O’Toole also claims she was harassed by head coach Meghan Boenig after announcing her pregnancy:
Alexandra O’Toole was hired to be one of the team’s assistant coaches in July 2016. She was fired in May 2018 when she was seven months pregnant after being called “preggers” by her boss and having “endured taunts about her pregnant condition and questions concerning her priorities,” her lawsuit contends.
Even though O’Toole’s athletes fared well this year, she claims she was still harassed by Boenig:
“Despite this fact,” the lawsuit notes, “Ms. Boenig made disparaging comments related to Ms. O’Toole’s pregnancy and pregnant condition. … For instance, Ms. Boenig would make demeaning comments about the size of her breasts, the size of her stomach, and referred to her as ‘preggers.’”
We’ll see what becomes of this lawsuit, but for now, it’s not a good look for the team.
Never, never, never, never mess with a pregnant woman, except to say congratulations and offer support. You’ll always piss off someone. It is almost impossible to treat someone the exact way they want to be treated, especially a pregnant woman.
Come on down ole TruCuck
“Preggers” is not a derogatory term. It’s just short for pregnant. This lawsuit should get thrown out.
I agree that some of this is being thin skinned. The suit says she was fired for being pregnant which would be wrong. Her relating the taunts seems to be used to prove why she was fired. If she proves she was discriminated against due to her condition she will win easily.
How do you coach a physical activity, for example demonstrate technique, when you are pregnant? Being a mom is a great career all by itself, some jobs it doesn’t interfere with, some it does. When it does you should have the common courtesy to resign, ask for a leave, whatever your employer has the generosity to provide. If you don’t you might, and might-should be fired. In the years when you are not pregnant you might get re-hired somewhere…. unless you start suing employers…. I’d say after you do that, your a mom-only for life. And you should be. Employers are not Santa Claus. They don’t owe anybody free money. If you can do your job completely and up to standards fine, if not, then for any behavior that falls short of doing your job completely and well.. you certainly should be fire-able. By the way, this applies to men who just put on too much weight. What kind of discipline example is that for the athletes in a program??? You want to be a coach?, look and act like one at all times…PERIOD. What the heck kind of candy-cane world are we handing out degrees for here.
Holy cow! Did you really just write that? Women should resign for being pregnant? Just to be clear, the job of an equestrian coach is not to ride a horse, it is to tell athletes how to ride a horse. Having kids is part of life. As a matter of fact it is the most important part of life. We have laws that support this position because people like Wolfman just don’t get it.
Men should be allowed random, extremely extended, paid time off work for being overly stressed. It’s a part of life am I right? It’s all for equality.
The fact is men and women ARE different. In fact I have zero remorse for wage inequality when you have two equal workers but (due to the choice of the woman to be a mother) one with the special power to disappear from work without the employers permission for multiple months at a time multiple times in her career.
The woman has a choice on whether to be a mother or a career person…..but kids are a career!
This sounds like a statement from the He-Man Woman Haters Club. Should men (or women)in the National Guard be allowed to retain their jobs after being called to active duty? I mean, after all they did sign up voluntarily right? Also, you’re implying women have to choose between working and being a parent; the same false equivalency would be men disappearing to the garage after their work day ends and have nothing to do with raising children.
Only a sexist hoping to promote women to jobs they haven’t earned would disagree with what i wrote, Aunt Rob.
A woman can plan her family in such a way that it doesn’t interfere with her career goals. Another woman can take her job, do a poor job of it, with a lot of politically correct excuses leaving the employer in a dimished position, and looking for every possible way to not have anybody miss anymore work. Where does that leave men and women that need a day off every now and then.
You have proven time and again you’re a sexist wolfman…