PORTLAND, Maine —
A federal judge has ruled that a Maine hospital violated the state's equal pay law by paying a female psychologist barely half the wage of her male colleagues.
The judge ruled that Northern Light Acadia Hospital violated the Maine Equal Pay Law and must pay back wages and damages to psychologist Clare Mundell.
Mundell filed the lawsuit after learning her hourly rate of $50 was less than the $90 to $95 per hour made by men in her department.
The judge, Lance Walker of U.S. District Court in Maine, wrote Tuesday that Mundell was "unlawfully underpaid by Acadia," a psychiatric hospital in Bangor.
Northern Light said it will appeal the judge's ruling.
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