An Ivy League professor who has been accused of sexually harassing a female researcher says Americans are ‘p***ies’ and that U.S. discrimination laws are ‘totally biased against the “privileged white males”,’ it has been reported.

Geert Bekaert, a professor at Columbia University in New York, and his employer are being sued for $30million in a Manhattan federal court for alleged harassment of Enrichetta Ravina.

‘The laws in this country are screwed up and totally biased against the “privileged white males”,’ Bekaert wrote to a colleague.

Ravina, a former finance researcher at the university, claims Bekaert, who is 11 years older than her, made unwanted advances toward her beginning in September 2012, according to Poets and Quants.

Geert Bekaert, a professor at Columbia University in New York, and his employer are being sued for $30million in a Manhattan federal court for alleged harassment of Enrichetta Ravina (above)

Ravina and Bekaert, who was her mentor, had been collaborating on academic research projects for more than two years at the time.

Bekaert then made repeated requests for her to join him for dinner, but she declined.

Eventually, she relented, although she made clear this was to remain a professional relationship.

Ravina said that at the dinner, Bekaert ‘asked me if I had a boyfriend and if I lived with him.

‘I said, “Look this is a dinner among colleagues and I appreciate our work together and want to continue to work together”.

‘He started laughing.’

After the dinner, Ravina says that Bekaert gave her a ride home in a taxi.

As she started to exit the taxi at her destination, ‘he put his hand on my back and slid it down,’ she claims.

‘I rushed out of the taxi.’

When she rejected his advances, Bekaert sabotaged her research and impeded her academic career, according to the lawsuit.

Ravina claims that Bekaert made it clear that she was required to yield to his sexual advances if she wanted her works published in academic papers.

When she notified administrators at Columbia University, they brushed off her complaints and blamed her for ‘flirting’ with Bekaert.

Ravina’s lawsuit alleges that Bekaert and Columbia are guilty of ‘gender discrimination, a hostile work environment, quid pro quo sexual harassment, retaliation, failure to promote, and wrongful discharge.’

Ravina, a former finance researcher at the university, claims Bekaert (above), who is 11 years older than her, made unwanted advances toward her beginning in September 2012

Newly released emails show that Bekaert told his colleagues he felt he was the victim of a political culture that had drifted ‘to the left,’ according to the New York Daily News.

‘The lawyer I spoke to, a feisty 50-year-old, immediately told me that it was very clear I had been played and that the legal environment had gotten too far too the left and was getting abused left and right by people like Enrichetta,’ he wrote in an email to a ‘basketball buddy.’

The Belgian professor said that the lawyer was ‘a woman who immediately saw through the case and was on my side.’

Bekaert also says that the lawyer advised him not to work with women anymore given the climate.

‘She also suggested that in the current environment people in my position should simply not work with women anymore, too risky,’ his email said.

In the civil trial, Ravina’s lawyer cited Bekaert’s emails to colleagues which refer to her as an ‘evil b***h, a f*****g b***h, an unbelievable b***h, a damn evil b***h, an evil b***h in action, (and) an incredible mean b***h …’

Bekaert has denied the allegations.