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Topic of the Week

Sex / Gender Discrimination

Sex or gender discrimination in employment involves treating someone unfavorably because of the person’s sex, whether they are applying for a job or are a current employee. Although women have made clear they have the ability to perform with the sam

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Blog of the Week

Reckoning With the Hidden Rules of Gender in the Tax Code: How Low Taxes on Corporations and the Wealthy Impact Women’s Economic Opportunity and Security

Reckoning With The Hidden Rules of Gender in the Tax Code, tackles some aspects of the tax code that shape corporate and individual behaviors in ways that have negative downstream effects on women and especially women of color.

Thought for the Week

"The masculine structure of the workplace — having men there for as many hours as [bosses] wanted — depends on the olden days, when men had someone at home who was taking care of all their needs. Definitions of fatherhood are changing, and definitions of motherhood are changing more quickly in our social worlds than they are in our work worlds. "

–Ann McGinley, co-director of the University of Nevada Las Vegas Workplace Law Program and author of Masculinity At Work: Employment Discrimination Through A Different Lens

List of the Week

from National Woman's Law Center

Equal Pay for Latinas

• The wage gap between Latinas and white, non-Hispanic men is far larger than the wage gap between all women and all men.
• Latinas nationally are typically paid just 54 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men.
• Latinas’ share of high-wage jobs (defined as those in the 40 highest-paying jobs) is staggeringly low, at 3.1 percent

Top Five News Headlines

1. When So-Called Work Ethic Replaces Productivity, American Families Suffer
2. Labor Law: Can you legally deck the workplace halls?
3. How a Gig Worker Revolt Begins
4. Stunning $20M Jury Verdict In Sexual Orientation Discrimination Case
5. Dollar General to Pay $6 Million to Settle EEOC Class Race Discrimination Suit