Marilyn Ducksworth left Penguin last Friday after 28 years with the company, and in a complaint she says was filed on Wednesday afternoon in New York State Supreme Court charges the publisher with age discrimination. Ducksworth, who is 56, says she left “as a result of Penguin’s deliberate, unrelenting undermining of [her] status.” Penguin spokesperson Erica Glass said, “If a complaint is filed, the true facts will be presented to the court in due course. We can state categorically that it was Marilyn Ducksworth’s decision to resign and that PGI does not condone, nor was there, any age discrimination or […]
