A sex-discrimination lawsuit by two former female employees of EMC describes a men's locker-room atmosphere at the data storage vendor's sales offices and alleges women were systematically denied equal pay and forced to accompany men on company-paid strip club visits.

A hearing is scheduled Monday in a bid to include all women who worked in sales at Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC, the largest provider of data storage systems for corporate clients, from 2001 to 2004.

More than 40 women have alleged sex-discrimination by EMC in lawsuits, affidavits or complaints with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said plaintiffs' attorney Linda D. Friedman.

On Wednesday, after The Wall Street Journal published an article about the discrimination cases, EMC's top executive sent his more than 33,000 employees a letter defending his company.

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