Heather Bivens, the Associate Senior Vice President for Quality Assurance of a nonprofit provider of services to persons with disabilities, was let go when her male supervisor was told to cut $100,000 out of the department’s budget. She was let go instead of a much younger man who had only a few years of work experience and was allegedly “over his head” in the job. A federal District Court in New York has allowed her to challenge her termination on the basis of gender discrimination. According to the complaint, Bivens was first hired in 2004 and moved up the ranks, receiving increasingly favorable job evaluations, until she was promoted to Associate Senior Vice President in 2011. She...