Questions tagged [sex-discrimination]
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Is it legal for a company to offer free coding courses to women only?
A company is offering free coding courses to women and non-binary individuals only.
Is this kind of sex-based discrimination legal?
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Is it true that men are forced to pay child support for children they didn't consent to have?
According to many in the men's rights movement, a woman who, in any way, gets pregnant from a man will be able to get child support from him, which in most states is proportional to a man's wealth.
This is even if the man clearly didn't consent to…
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Can women also go shirtless in public legally?
Do women have the same rights as men to walk on the beach or sidewalk topless where men are also walking bare-chested without being discriminated against? If a woman is arrested or asked to leave by enforcement, but not the men, is that blatant…
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Is it legal to say "the University welcomes applications from all individuals who self-declare as a woman" in job post?
I saw a job post this week:
The University of Regina is committed to development of a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the richness of the community that we serve. For this competition, the University welcomes applications from all…
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Does offering women and children first priority for limited places on a lifeboat breach discrimination law?
In your jurisdiction, would the operators of the Titanic's decision to offer women and children first priority for the limited lifeboat places have amounted to unlawful discrimination (such as on the bases of sex and age), if the current laws on…
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Do soldiers have a greater duty to women and children than to men in case of a shipwreck?
The Queen’s Bench Division apparently affirmed this idea in R v. Dudley and Stephens suchly:
To preserve one's life is generally speaking a duty, but it may be the
plainest and the highest duty to sacrifice it. War is full of
instances in which it…
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Is it proper for a venue to refuse entry to “single gentlemen” after a certain time of day as a matter of policy?
A bouncer to a bar in an English urban centre claims that it is the establishment’s standing policy not to allow entry for lone male visitors who are not with another person after a certain hour in the evening due to “past issues that have happened”…
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Must German job postings include "(m/f)" even in English?
As I understand it, German law requires companies posting job openings to address the gendered nature of the German language by including both the masculine and feminine forms of the job title (e.g., by writing "Programmierer(in)" for both maculine…
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Are Ladies' Nights Legal?
I recently went to a Macado's, for karaoke night. When we went to enter, the lady said it would be a 2$ "Cover fee". I asked if it was for both of us (my gf and I), or total, and she said it was just for me because im male. I have since found out…
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Can a Web site owner prohibit men from accessing a site for religious reasons?
Is it legal for a woman who writes a religious blog to not allow men to access the site because of a belief that women should not teach men about religion?
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Is awarding a day off for women employees on 8 March a discrimination against the male employees?
Early this year I joined a new company. As part of the benefits they give to their employees is included a day off, paid by the company, to all female employees for the 8 of March because of the International Woman's Day celebration.
So women…
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Law regarding toilets use in The Netherlands
Today my manager sent an email to our department regarding the toilet use; they said that it is not allowed to use the ladies' room as a man, by law, and vice versa.
That got me curious.
Note that I work for a fairly large company which is not in…
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Is it legal to preferentially hire female nurses & doctors because female patients are less comfortable with men seeing them naked?
Sort of a follow-up to Is it legal to preferentially hire men instead of women because women can get pregnant?
The idea is, women tend to be less comfortable with men seeing them naked than men are with women seeing them naked. Therefore, if I'm…
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Is it legal to preferentially hire men instead of women because women can get pregnant?
Let's say Alice & Bob apply for a job, and both of them are equally good. The company they're applying to decides they'll hire Bob because Alice can potentially get pregnant, which means they'll have to pay for maternity leave (or if maternity leave…
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Pregnancy discrimination against woman who does professional surrogacy on the side
In the United States it is generally forbidden to refrain from hiring women who intend on becoming pregnant and one must preserve their position while they are on maternity leave.
If a woman decides to become a professional surrogate and deliver a…
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