A transgender man who is trying to obtain sex reassignment surgery is suing his employer, Dignity Health, for failing to provide insurance coverage for the surgery. The man alleges that Dignity Health discriminated against him for being transgender, as well …
The National LGBTQ Task Force and the District of Columbia Office of Human Rights recently released a resource guide aimed at preventing workplace discrimination against transgender individuals. The guide was released as part of LGBT week.
According to a report …
The sexual harassment policy at UC Berkeley is under fire because of an alleged hole when it comes to disciplining rule breakers. Last year, four highly-compensated employees who were accused of sexual harassing students or colleagues all received very different …
Two former Silicon Valley employees authored a study that discovered that roughly 60 percent of female employees in Silicon Valley have been sexually harassed. The authors surveyed more than 200 women who had at least 10 years of work experience …
Last week, some Twitter employees posted a picture of an office party that had a frat-party theme. The photo showed that the party had red Solo cups, a keg, and a beer pong table, which had the Twitter logo. A …
It may be surprising, but even in 2015, with state and federal laws in place outlawing sexual discrimination in the workplace, it is not uncommon for uncomfortable sexual situations to …
Gurbaksh “G” Chahal, an advertising tech executive, has been sued, along with his company, Gravity4 Software, for gender discrimination and for secretly monitoring a female employee. Chahal was formerly the CEO of RadiumOne, but was fired last year after being …
Ellen Pao, an employee in the high-tech sector, lost her high-profile sexual discrimination case against a prominent venture capital firm. Pao had filed a $16 million lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. A jury of six men and six …
A former Facebook employee is suing the company on a number of claims. She is alleging that the company discriminated against her because of her sex, her race, and her national origin. She also claims that she was harassed at …
A trial that is underway in San Francisco is shining a light on Silicon Valley’s hiring practices and gender discrimination. Ellen Pao, a former junior partner at Kleiner Perkins, a venture capitalist firm, sued Kleiner Perkins for sex discrimination. Pao …
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