A former Catholic school teacher has filed a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas that includes a claim of gender-based discrimination. Somewhat unusually in such cases, the former teacher is male.
He claims that while employed at a Catholic school on the outskirts of Kansas City, Missouri, he was unfairly treated on the basis of his male gender, which included expectations that would not have been applied to female staff, reportslocal media KCTV 5.
US District Court for the District of Kansas records show that on 20 September, Michael Pateidl, a former teacher at St. Ann Catholic School located in Prairie Village, a town of about 21,000 people in the Kansas City metropolitan area, filed a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas that levies claims of discrimination and retaliation against the Church.
