Sex Discrimination Act

Disability Discrimination Act (1995) and (2005)- The DDA bought in to support the rights of disabled people to take a full and active part in society. It gives them equality of access and the same opportunities to participate in society as a non-disabled people. This important piece of legislation gives disabled people rights regarding the way in which they received services, facilities or goods. This also included education, care and play services. A disabled person is someone who has a physical or mental impairment that affects their ability to carry out normal day to day activities. This will be long-term.

“Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 Title I does not allow any private employers, local, and state governments, labor unions and employment agencies from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in job application procedures, firing, hiring, job training, advancement and other terms, privileges, and conditions of employment” (The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity

"Gender discrimination, also known as sexism, refers to prejudice or discrimination based on sex and/ or gender, as well as conditions or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on gender" (Women and Gender Discrimination). Sexism is a social injustice that is not applied only to women but, to men as well. Certain personalities and characteristics are expected from both genders starting as children. Little girls are expected to play with dolls, while little boys are expected to play rough. These small seeds planted into children over time grow, and produce the men and women who make up society. In psychology you have a term called norm, a norm is an unwritten role, or expectation for how a group should behave (Pastorino, 2013). Men and women both make up separate groups. In each group norms have been formed on how members of the group should conduct themselves. Masculinity is often associated with competition, emotional detachment, aggression and violence (“Gender Issues in the Media”). Femininity is associated with softness, vulnerability, and being able to submit to men. Needless to say, norms are not always correct or right. When you have people within a group who do not comply with the norms presented, then sexism comes into play. Both men and women can experience sexism though majority of the criticism is focused towards women. Women and men are expected to pose certain characteristics and if they aren 't then they are looked at

The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is in place to make it so men and women are paid the same if they are performing the same jobs. It gives equality in the workplace between men and women.

Despite legislation for equal opportunities, sexism is still evident in the workplace. Women have made great advancements in the workforce and have become an integral part of the labor market. They have greater access to higher education and as a result, greater access to traditionally male dominated professions such as law. While statistics show that women are equal to men in terms of their numbers in the law profession, it is clear however, that they have not yet achieved equality in all other areas of their employment. Discrimination in the form of gender, sex and sexual harassment continues to be a problem in today’s society.

The Equal Pay Act set in the United States in 1963 is a labor law removes the wage inequality between men and women. This was a law that was specifically designed so that everyone is required to be paid the same amount. If a man and a woman are both working the same job title in the same work place there should not be any difference in the amount of pay received. The creation of this law was much more important than many people realized, because women were completing the same jobs but offered less money because of their gender and not quality of their work.The sole purpose of the equal pay is give women the same ability to make a living as a male, which closes the gender pay gap and keeps women for being paid 78 cents on a dollar. This pay act helps hold the employer accountable for making sure no one is not being compensated for things in their job description. In this paper I will speaking about The EEOC Sues Checkers and the Phillips V. Marietta Corp which are two specific cases that shows how people have been discriminated against because of their gender, this highlights the importance of The Equal Pay Act and what it actually stands for.

Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - This act describes a disabled person as someone with "a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities", which has or can be expected to last for more than 12 months. Conditions that impair an individual's abilities in this way include those that hamper mobility; manual dexterity; physical co-ordination; continence; the ability to lift; carry or move everyday objects; speech; hearing or eyesight; memory or ability to concentrate, learn or

The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a federal law that amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The EPA was designed to rid the work for of the imbalance of wages due to the gender of an employee. This law was proposed because it was the consensus of voters that determining an employee's based on their sex versus their skills was unethical. The EPA was signed into law one full year before the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Equal Pay The Equality Act 2010, which encompasses the Equal Act 1970, made it unlawful to pay men and women differently if they were employed in :

Sex Discrimination Act 1984, the purpose of this legislation is to prevent discrimination based on sex, marital or pregnancy status, family responsibilities as well as preventing sexual harassment at workplace and to create the equality between gender. This law is force to use on the 1st January 2014. (Federal Register of Legislation)

This act prohibits the discrimination against the disability and aspects of an employee from an employment relationship. Every company should have an understanding of what this act is and why it is necessary for them to know it and practice it in the work place to avoid legal issues. The Americans with Disability Act prohibits discrimination based on the disability of an employee and all other aspects of the employment relationship such as job application process, firing the employee, promoting or compensating a disabled employee, and training as well as other work related

Steve Coles recently filed a lawsuit against the Custer County School District for gender discrimination. Steve recently applied for a job opening at Custer County School District for a 5th grade teaching position. Mr. Coles was not given the teaching position at the school even though he has over ten years of teaching experience and has earned several advanced teaching certifications. Mr. Coles believes this school district is inherently biased against males and has a disproportional hiring of female applicants. He also believes the hiring process is not accurate as he states it involves very few formal evaluations and a huge impact is the connection with other teachers within the district.

The issue is whether Faith+1 employment policy discriminates against a specific sex. It shall be unlawful for an employment practice to discriminate against any individual with respect to compensation because of such individual’s sex. 42 U.S.C.A. § 2000e-2 (a)(1). Title VII includes the terms because of sex includes because the basis of pregnancy. Vigars v. Valley Christian Ctr., 805 F.Supp. 802, 806 (N.D. Cal. 1992). The Court of Appeals reasoned, only women can ever be fired for being pregnant. Id. at 808. Vigars was fired by her employer because her employer felt premarital pregnancy was inconstant with religious values of the church and school. Id. The court held women being subject to termination for something men could not be terminated

Women discrimination is an issue because even though police society has accepted women’s position in the law enforcement, female officers still continue to face gender harassment. Sadly, sexual harassment and discrimination are the most common practiced gender inequalities in policing. Since the early years of women in policing, sexual harassment was not acknowledged as unacceptable or as criminal. There were no policies recognizing it as a problem. Consequently, female police officers were frequently encountered with verbal harassment that included vulgar language, ‘nasty’ jokes and innuendoes. This type of behavior not only made the victim uncomfortable, but also in some cases made her humiliated. Although there has been many measures taken to diminish sexual harassment and gender discrimination against women in policing the issue still remains evident.

Gender discrimination against women is out of control across the world and seeps into many aspects of women 's lives. This discrimination harms women in two ways. First, women directly experience stressful events. The experience of sexism is so common that some research suggests women can experience one to two instances of everyday sexism. But women aren 't only harmed by sexism through the physical stress caused by others. They are harmed to the extent that they internalize and adopt these sexist attitudes that can manifest as poor self-concept. This negative self-concept often obvious on a subconscious level, as women and men will demonstrate automatic negative biases against women (Ferguson, 2013).