Mena has been employed at Bill’s Department Store for approximately 10 years as an assistant manager. Despite her supervisor’s assurances that she is among the top candidates for a promotion, she is repeatedly passed over. Five store manager positions have been given to less-experienced and less-qualified men within a two-month period as well as to women with no children or to women who assured their bosses they would have no more children. Mena has one child and is pregnant again. When she confronts her supervisor, he tells her that her motherhood is the reason for her being passed over for promotion. What legal course of action can Mena take in this case?
