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fastcompany.com – By Melissa Jun Rowley
For decades, the term gender equality has focused on the equal treatment of men and women. Now in the year 2015, all genders are starting to come into focus.
The trans community is slowly being viewed in a …
jdsupra.com – Pepper Hamilton LLP
Although most companies have workplace policies prohibiting discrimination and harassment based on an employee’s sex, race and religion, many companies have not yet added gender identity to the list of protected ca…
jdsupra.com – Kristen Smith – Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC
By now, most employers are familiar with the list of categories protected from employment discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act: race, color, religion, national origin and se…
takepart.com – By Nicole Pasulka
In the late summer of 2010, Tamara Lusardi, whose birth name is Todd, informed a supervisor that she wanted to start transitioning from male to female at work. Tamara Lusardi had been working as a quality assurance s…
huffingtonpost.com – Caroline Turner – Author, workshop facilitator, speaker, consultant
What is different in the work experience of Mary before and after she has a sex reassignment surgery and becomes Tom? What happens when the only difference in t…
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The basic American bargain is that those who work hard and meet their responsibilities should be able to get ahead. It is an agreement that workers will be judged and rewarded based on their contributions and capabilit…
boston.com – By Katie Johnston – Globe Staff
This week, some of America’s biggest and best known corporations, including Walt Disney Co., J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., and consumer products giant Unilever, will descend on Boston to recruit students from …
hreonline.com – By Andrew R. McIlvaine
Benefits for same-sex couples are far from an anomaly these days. A recently released report from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust finds that 31 percent of employers offe…
sciencecareers.sciencemag.org – By Jacqueline Ruttimann Oberst
“LGBT scientists should be recognized as excellent employees not as having sexual cultural issues.” – Jeff Hammonds
Think “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” applies only to the military? This to…
crainsnewyork.com – By Bruce W. Fraser
Until Planet Pepper, options were very limited for drag queens who needed outfits and dresses. Well, just think: dresses that are proportioned correctly for a size 14 man.
“They were taking a square peg and …