The Latest Breaking News from Discrimination

From the gender pay gap to the glass ceiling, women are still bearing the brunt of stereotypical attitudes that limit everything from their pay packet to their career potential. Here we explore why these age-old issues are still affecting young women and effective ways to overcome them

When a conservative Supreme Court majority effectively ended the use of affirmative action in college admissions, it disregarded more than 40 years of precedent — and the realities of systemic racial discrimination.

When librarians at local public libraries decide which books to keep and which to exclude, they often violate the public trust by doing so based on ideology. To avoid potential legal liability, these public officials should avoid viewpoint discrimination and suppress their personal biases. Instead, they should select materials that…

From Judge Clifton Corker's opinion today in Ultima Servs. Corp. v. U.S. Dep't of Agric. (E.D. Tenn.) [UPDATE: link fixed]: This case concerns whether, under the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection, Defendants the United States' Department of Agriculture ("USDA") and the Small Business Administration ("SBA") may use a "rebuttable…

Washington state fines a mushroom grower $3.4 million for firing women farmworkers and replacing them with male contract labor.

Pregnant Then Screwed data reveals how women having children are treated in the workplace.

The player, identified in the lawsuit as John Doe, alleged Tuesday in the Cook County Court that Fitzgerald, Northwestern University President Michael Schill, the board of trustees and athletic director Derrick Gragg enabled and concealed sexual misconduct and racial discrimination.

New exhibit highlights the contributions of Jewish cricketers and addresses the challenges of discrimination in the sport.

More than half of women rate the media industry’s commitment to gender equality as weak or very weak, and more than 10% point to bias and discrimination as the reason behind their careers stagnating.

A federal court rejects plaintiff's arguments "that sealing ... is required because she is being 'slandered and libeled' and '[m]aking [her] information public would magnify the effects of [defendants'] wrongdoing' rather than right those wrongs."

Thirteen Republican state attorneys general are cautioning CEOs of the 100 biggest U.S. companies on the legal consequences for using race as a factor in hiring and employment practices