—In an action pursuant to Human Rights Law article 15 to recover damages for sexual harassment, the defendant Chase Manhattan Bank appeals from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Jones, J.), dated March 11, 1999, as granted that branch of the plaintiffs’ motion which was to dismiss the fourth and sixth affirmative defenses contained in its answer.
Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law, with costs, and that branch of the plaintiffs’ motion which was to dismiss the appellant’s fourth and sixth affirmative defenses is denied.
Upon a motion to dismiss a defense, a defendant is entitled to the benefit of every reasonable intendment of the pleading, which is to be liberally construed (see, Abney v Lunsford,