According to an expert report by the plaintiffs, though, from 2004 to 2012, women on average<br />filled only 60.5 percent of store manager jobs and 56.9 percent of department manager jobs.<br />The statements, most of them from women, are part of a class-action case<br />that includes 69,000 current or former employees and accuses Sterling of pay discrimination against women.<br />Ms. Sargent is among the hundreds of former employees of Sterling Jewelers, the parent of Kay Jewelers, Jared<br />and other jewelry retailers, whose statements about their experiences at the company were released on Feb. 26.<br />Donald Davison, a former manager at Osterman Jewelers in Mentor, Ohio, said his daughter’s boss<br />at a Kay store said to her, “If you don’t put out, you’ll be out,” according to his statement.<br />The complaint made its way to a district manager who later told her<br />that she should “grow some thick skin” and that the guard had been having “harmless fun,” according to a sworn written statement from Ms. Sargent.<br />Sterling Jewelers Suit Casts Light on Wider Policies Hurting Women -<br />By SUSAN ANTILLAMARCH 6, 2017<br />Sandra Sargent had finally had enough when a guard at Jared the Galleria of Jewelry in Crestview<br />Hills, Ky., waved his security scanning wand over her buttocks one day in 2007.
