Karen D. Peters, Cross-Appellants v. The City of Shreveport, Cross-Appellee

RANDALL, Circuit Judge:

I

The twenty-seven plaintiffs and intervenors in this case are currently or were formerly employed by the defendant City of Shreveport in the capacity of “police communications officer” (“PCO”). PCOs answer the city police department’s telephones, plot the changing positions of patrol cars on the department’s computer, and address citizen’s complaints to the nearest patrol car by means of a two-way radio. The plaintiffs, a group composed of twenty-four women and three physically handicapped men, alleged that the city discriminated against them on the basis of sex by…