(FORTUNE Magazine) – SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge Monday authorized a . . . ''comparable worth'' suit on behalf of about 90,000 women -- present and former state workers who claim pay discrimination. But Judge Marilyn Hall Patel said she was not inclined to allow men who worked in the same jobs for the same wages * to join the suit, because they had not been victims of sex discrimination. The suit . . . accuses the state of systematically underpaying workers in about 400 women-dominated jobs such as secretaries, nurses, and clerks. -- From a news report in USA Today.