Category: Gender Discrimination

Insights on Complex Legal Challenges

Strategic perspectives on civil rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, police misconduct, retaliation, and institutional accountability.

Age DiscriminationSep 6, 2012

Filing a Discrimination Complaint

Under Federal, State and some local laws, it is illegal to discriminate against an individual for their: • Ethnicity • Skin color, or related...

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BlogSep 1, 2012

Sexual Harassment in the Manufacturing Industry

Sexual harassment occurs when an individual is discriminated against based on his or her gender. Usually, perpetrators of sexual harassment are in a position...

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BlogAug 30, 2012

Sexual Harassment in the Construction Industry

Construction has always been a male dominated industry. This has long opened females up to the risk of sexual harassment. Today, sexual harassment is...

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Age DiscriminationAug 26, 2012

Filing Charges of Employment Discrimination with the EEOC

The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) safeguards the residents of United States against discrimination by an employer, labor union or employment agency...

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BlogAug 24, 2012

Sexual Harassment in the Agricultural Industry

Nearly 25% of all U.S. farm workers are women. Many if not most of these women are immigrants, many of them undocumented. They help...

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BlogAug 11, 2012

Violations of the Equal Pay Act

On June 10th 1963, President John F Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, to prohibit discrimination “on account of sex in the...

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Abuse of State PowerDec 23, 2011

NYPD Lawyer Says She Was Denied Promotion Due to Pregnancy

THE NYPD is being sued by one of its own lawyers claiming she lost out on a promised promotion because she was pregnant. “Why...

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Abuse of State PowerSep 8, 2011

School for scandal

Medgar Evers College is a real-life animal house. The dean of freshman studies said yesterday she was the target of a sexual-harassment campaign. Dean...

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Abuse of State PowerJun 6, 2011

NYPD Sergeant Alleges Male on Male Sexual Harassment

A NYPD sergeant has filed a complaint that claims he’s being sexually harassed by his male boss. Sgt. Nelson Fernandez, a nine-year NYPD veteran,...

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