Sex Discrimination in Employment
Employment is critical to gender equality, but workers still experience sex discrimination at work in both obvious and indirect ways. For example:
- Some pregnant workers are fired or otherwise penalized for becoming pregnant
- Some pregnant workers are pushed off the job because their employer won’t make job modifications during their pregnancy
- Some breastfeeding workers are not given accommodations to express (“pump”) breast milk at work
- Some new parents are not given accommodations to meet family obligations, such as caring for children or other family members.
- Some employers give birth parents more family leave than their partners, or refuse to give non-birth parents any family leave
- Some women are unfairly shut out of jobs – such as police and firefighting work – by tests of physical strength or agility.
- Some women workers suffer unequal pay, “steering” into lower-paying and less desirable jobs, or discrimination based on their marital status.
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