A woman who was fired because she was “too cute” and made her employer's wife jealous may proceed with her gender discrimination suit, a state appeals court in Manhattan ruled.

A panel of the Appellate Division, First Department said it disagreed with Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Shlomo Hagler's ruling last year that New York's employment discrimination laws, considered among the most liberal in the country, did not allow Dilek Edwards to bring a gender discrimination claim against her former employers, a husband and wife team who co-own a chiropractic practice in Manhattan's Financial District.