II Sandra Barton worked as a team leader managing the food service and deli departments at Value Mart, a grocery retail store in Syracuse, NY. Her duties included overseeing the store's hot food stations to ensure quality and presentation standards and compliance with sanitation procedures and regulations, which entailed keeping food logs. The store manager, Matt Dayton, was her immediate supervisor while all of the five team leaders under Matt's supervision at the Syracuse store were women. Barton found Dayton treated her and her colleagues poorly. He once commented to Barton that one of her female coworkers was an "idiot" and "shouldn't have a job." Another time, he told another female employee that "not firing her is like charity." Dayton remarked directly to Barton on at least two occasions that he didn't think women should be managers, and that "women are too sensitive to be leaders." During her time at the store, Barton was disciplined on three occasions for "failing to keep the logbooks properly." On August 16, Barton failed to keep the logbook consistently for a fourth time. On catching the mistake, Dayton stated in front of other employees that "ten-year-old could do her (Barton's) job better" and