Former Evergreen schools superintendent wins $2M discrimination case

Women earn about 83 cents for every dollar men make. For the first-ever woman superintendent at one Silicon Valley school district, that number was closer to 81 cents compared to her male predecessors.

Former Evergreen School District Superintendent Kathy Gomez won a more than $2 million settlement, after a federal court validated her claims last month of unequal pay and discrimination against her at the district. The case is a crucial step in ensuring women in the education space get fair pay, but also reveals how abuses of power occur at the school board level, experts said.