Outback Steakhouse agreed to pay $19 million to settle a sex-discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of female employees at the restaurant chain. Outback, which is owned by private-equity investor Bain Capital LLC, didn’t admit to any wrongdoing...Outback, with 950 restaurants worldwide, discriminated against its female workers by denying them equal opportunities to advance, the U.S. agency alleged...“There is no glass ceiling,” Liz Smith, chief executive officer of OSI Restaurant Partners LLC, the parent company of Outback, said yesterday in a statement. “We do not tolerate discrimination in any form.”