Eldon Ray Blumhorst, 42, has filed a civil rights lawsuit against 10 battered women’s shelters in Los Angeles that denied him a place to stay. Blumhorst called the 10 shelters in December saying that he needed shelter from domestic violence, but none of the shelters would accept him on the grounds that they only […]
Category Archives: Sex Discrimination
Scottish Men Sue Over Dress Code
July 22, 2003 – 12:00 am
Following the lead of an English civil servant, almost a thousand Scottish civil servants have filed complaints charging that dress codes requiring they wear shirts and ties constitute sex discrimination.
Staff members at Scotland’s Department of Work and Pension argue that since their jobs do not bring them into contact with the public, it is […]
Norway Proposes to Set Quotas for Women on Corporate Boards
July 20, 2003 – 12:00 am
Norwegian legislator Laila Daavoey has introduced a bill that would require Norway’s top 600 companies or so to create a quota system for filling board positions. Comapnies that fail to fill at least 40 percent of their corporate board positions by 2005 would face financial penalties begining in 2007.
This follows an announcement in November […]
Requiring Men to Wear Ties Is Sex Discrimination?
April 28, 2003 – 12:00 am
The Daily Telegraph reported in March that a 32-year-old civil servant had won his sexual discrimination complaint against his employer after a new dress code required men at the company to wear ties.
The actual dress code required employees at a JobCenter office to dress in a “professional and businesslike manner” and went on to […]
Should Great Britain Discriminate Against Female Doctors?
April 8, 2002 – 12:00 am
The BBC reported on an odd trend in British medicine today — there are too many female doctors. One of the central planners of Great Britain’s medical system touched off a controversy by suggesting that medical schools might have to start discriminating against women in order to boost the number of male doctors.
The problem […]
Judge Overturns Army’s Affirmative Action Promotion Policy
April 4, 2002 – 1:00 am
In March a federal judge ruled unconstitutional an U.S. Army policy that gave preferential treatment in promotion to women and minorities.
The Army’s written policy urged promotion boards to consider “past personal or institutional discrimination” when considering candidates for promotion. A white, male officer passed over for promotion in 1996 and 1997 sued, arguing that […]
Is Positive Discrimination the Solution to Gender Imbalances in British Parliament?
February 25, 2002 – 1:00 am
After last summer’s elections in Great Britain, women made up only 118 of 659 politicians elected to the House of Commons. Great Britain is now considering requiring political parties to nominate women. Is this legal or even a good idea?
In the 1990s, Great Britain experimented with a system that forced parties to nominate more […]
North Carolina Boy Wants Tryout for Girls Softball Team
February 21, 2002 – 1:00 am
Josh Godbold is in an odd position — the 8th grader desperately wants to obtain some experience so that he can have a shot at trying out for a high school baseball team next year. There’s only one problem. The middle school Godbold attends has a girl’s softball team but no boy’s baseball team […]
Transsexual Wins $4,600 Award from Rape Counseling Group for Sex Discrimination
January 25, 2002 – 1:00 am
CNSNews.Com reports that this week a Canadian human rights court awarded Kimberly Nixon $4,664 after it agreed that her rights had been violated by The Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter. Nixon is a transsexual who was born male and had sexual reassignment surgery in 1990. The shelter argued that since Nixon grew up […]
Male Coach Wins $1.6 Million Lawsuit Against Smith College
January 8, 2002 – 1:00 am
In 1996, Smith College — an all women’s college that pioneered women’s sports, including holding the first women’s intercollegiate basketball game in 1893 — fired its basketball and soccer coach, Jim Babyak. In December, Babyak was awarded $1.6 million by a jury that agreed with his claims he had been fired because of his […]