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Sexual Stereotyping

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Discrimination is prejudicial treatment related to (or inappropriate consideration of) an individual's actual or perceived membership in a particular class, group or category, such as an individual's... more +

College Coach Alleges Gender Stereotyping in Discrimination Claim

Foley & Lardner LLP on 2/15/2022

A female gymnastics coach at Towson University in Maryland has filed a lawsuit claiming that the University fired her because of her gender, while she was pregnant and after she complained about being treated differently than...more

Tenth Circuit Says Female Employee Who "Butted Heads" With Management Was Fired Based on Gender Stereotype

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 5/15/2014

Title VII prohibits a number of different forms of sex discrimination in employment. Gender stereotyping claims have been a growing source of litigation, where plaintiffs allege that they were disciplined or terminated due to...more

New EEOC Report Examines Obstacles Facing Women in Federal Workplace

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission... on 12/13/2013

Six Impediments, Underlying Issues, Recommendations Identified by Work Group - WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) today issued a comprehensive report addressing major obstacles...more

Not Manly Enough? Fifth Circuit Recognizes Title VII Same-Sex, Gender-Stereotyping Discrimination

Baker Donelson on 10/17/2013

The Fifth Circuit recently became one of a growing number of courts to recognize same-sex, gender-stereotyping as a form of discrimination prohibited by Title VII. In September, the Court handed down its much-anticipated...more

“Locker Room” Talk In All-Male Workplace Sexual Harassment, Fifth Circuit Rules

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 10/15/2013

In this space, we have reported recently on the series of rebuffs that the EEOC has received from various courts in recent months. But in EEOC v. Boh Brothers Construction Company, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals handed...more

Fifth Circuit Hands Win to EEOC in Same-Sex Harassment

Baker Donelson on 10/14/2013

The EEOC won a significant victory on September 30, 2013, as the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, sitting en banc, reinstated a jury verdict finding that the defendant, Boh Brothers Construction...more

"Boys will be Boys" A Risky Employment Policy

Jackson Walker on 10/14/2013

In a 10-6 decision following en banc review, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently decided, in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Boh Brothers Construction Co. L.L.C., that an iron worker...more

Legal to Fire Female Employee for Being Irresistible?

Baker Donelson on 7/11/2013

The Iowa Supreme Court has recently withdrawn its December 21, 2012 opinion in the sex discrimination suit, Nelson v. Knight, and has declared that it will review the case....more

Gender Stereotyping Based on a Person’s Non-Conforming Behavior Violates Title VII

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 5/17/2013

As the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is intended to “strike at the entire spectrum of disparate treatment of men and women resulting from sex stereotyping.” Recently, a federal...more

Federal Appeals Court Resists Categorizing “Sexual Stereotyping” Claim As Violation Of Title VII

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/20/2012

Under Title VII, an unlawful employment practice is established when an employee demonstrates that gender is a motivating factor for an adverse employment action. Under that analysis, a number of federal appellate courts...more

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