Sex bias at E.D.

Education Department officials discriminated against an employee in the impact-aid office by giving her low job-performance ratings and denying her promotions because she is a woman, a federal jury has ruled.

After finding that the department violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars employment discrimination, the jury earlier this month ordered the agency to pay Mary E. Moran $243,750 in compensation for pain and suffering. Ms. Moran had been a field officer in the impact-aid office for more than eight years until she was transferred in 1993.

U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler has yet to decide whether the department will also be forced to give Ms. Moran a promotion or how much back pay...