B’berg editor axed for beef: suit

Bloomberg News is on the wrong “mommy track,” a new discrimination suit claims.

Christine Staiti, an editor and 15-year veteran of the financial news giant, was wrongly let go less than a month after complaining to her boss about the “exclusively male” makeup of important editorial positions, a lawsuit filed in a Massachusetts court claims.

“When there is an opening for a new editor or team leader, the position often isn’t posted and, invariably, a man is chosen for it,” Staiti e-mailed Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait on Aug. 8, 2015.

“Quite often, it’s somebody who either has no editing experience or doesn’t know the topic, when there are more qualified women who would have applied,” she added.

Bloomberg LP, the company owned by Mike Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor, has been dogged by complaints of discrimination against its female employees for at least 20 years.

Staiti was a party to an EEOC complaint about alleged demotions and pay cuts handed to women returning from maternity leave. The suit was tossed last year.

In her court filing, Staiti claims she was given fewer hours on a less prestigious beat after her 2005 maternity leave.

“What I learned was that the Small Cap team on which I was placed was effectively the ‘mommy track’ team,” Staiti wrote in her affidavit, which was anonymously mailed to The Post.

Staiti later ended up as an interim editor of a team that covered education — but was axed in 2015 during broad layoffs.

“I was the only person on the Education team who was terminated,” she wrote, adding that the decision to move her to interim editor was “nothing more than a pretext for discrimination and retaliation.”

Both Staiti and Bloomberg declined comment.

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