Blog Posts in Gender Discrimination

Boss Assumed That Gay Employee Must Have AIDS Supervisor drew pictures that mocked man’s supposed effeminate mannerisms Your boss seems uncomfortable that you’re in a same-sex marriage. He makes lewd ...

Female Boss Didn’t Want a Woman Doing So-Called Man’s Work Single mother of seven had stellar employment record before she was fired Is there such a thing as “men’s work” and “women’s work?” Believe ...

Woman Awarded $806K After Employer Wouldn’t Address Complaints Firefighter says she dealt with years of harassing and discriminatory behavior Working in a traditionally male-dominated field can have ...

Staffers Claimed a ‘Wall of Testosterone’ Stood Between Them and Equal Pay Separate but unequal treatment for employees of men’s and women’s sports programs A recent court case may demonstrate that ...

Ellen Pao lost her widely watched case against the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins last Friday. After a four-week trial, which gripped the west coast tech scene by revealing the ...

Sexual harassment complaints are generally made by women, but not always. It can happen to men too. It's illegal no matter who is the victim. Jeffrey Whitney worked at TJX in Massachusetts, which ...