7.2Gender Preferences.Sandra Ortiz-Del Valle sued the national Basketball Association (NBA) for violating Title VII for intentional discrimination due to her gender. She argued that the NBA had a continuous policy of barring women from employment as NBA referees based on the fact that no woman had ever been hired as a referee or invited to referee training camp until 1994. Despite praise from league officials regarding her skills, the NBA did not hire her. If she could not prove that she suffered any loss of earnings because she could not prove she would have been hired as a referee, how should the court rule on her claim? (Ortiz-Del Valle v. NBA, 42 F. Supp. 2d 334 (S.D.N.Y. 1999)