A pre-med student is suing the University of Cincinnati over a practice of prohibiting male and female students from working in the same group in a physics lab. The lawsuit alleges that the university is violating Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and the Equal Protection Clause in the 14th Amendment by engaging in gender-based discrimination.
Casey Helmicki, a rising junior, says a teaching assistant instructed her to work in groups with solely female students on the first day of a physics lab. The teaching assistant told her, “Women shouldn’t be working with men in science,” according to the lawsuit.
