Doctor, woman and mother. An explosive combination for the career of a surgeon. She knows something Pilar Prada, a Spanish doctor who, with the approval of the Iberian Supreme Court, will get compensation of € 12 thousand from the private clinic where she worked for suffered, gender discrimination on the workplace. The plastic surgeon was the only assumed practitioner in her field and, among other things, had a contract where the basic salary was supplemented by a rate proportional to the number of treated patients. Everything changes, however, when Mrs. Prada benefits of maternity leave. The director decides, in fact, to replace her with a male colleague who remain in service also after the period of leave. The Court held that there was, at the time of the act, no sufficient reason as an activity that previously was done by one person was then shared. With a clear economic loss to the applicant.
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