Discriminatory Hiring Practices
In 1999, a court case was brought by the U.S. Labor Department against the Kohler Company due to hiring practices that were found to be discriminatory to women. The company had an informal height requirement of 5'4" for women, which is the average adult female height in the United States. Because of its contracts with the federal government, the Kohler Company was prohibited from such discriminatory hiring practices. The company agreed as part of the settlement to hire 111 of the 2,000 women who had applied to work at Kohler from 1994 to 1995, and to undertake a study "to eliminate unnecessary barriers to women."
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