Female architect in Government housing agency was subjected to a toxic 'male only' culture

The Housing Agency ordered to pay Auveen Coombes-Lynch €5,000 arising from her successful gender discrimination claim

5/4/2017. Sign for the Workplace Relations Commission at Lansdowne House in Dublin. Photo: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie

A female architect at a Government housing agency has been awarded €5,000 in a discrimination claim where she complained of a ‘toxic’ male culture in the workplace.

At the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), Adjudicator, Michael McEntee has ordered The Housing Agency to pay Auveen Coombes-Lynch €5,000 arising from her successful gender discrimination claim under the Employment Equality Act.