About 10% of sex discrimination complaints are filed by white males. In December 2025, Andrea Lucas, the chair of the U.S.

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LGBTQ+ people are more likely to experience discrimination at work in spite of laws against it, according to reporting from The 19th. A study released by the Williams Institute last year shows that 17 ...

Everyone deserves to have a job to earn a living and care for the ones they love. As such, there are laws that guarantee you protection from discrimination by your employer. Employers are forbidden ...

Inscribed on the Statue of Liberty is Emma Lazarus’s The New Colossus, which promises safe harbor for immigrants. It ends with the line: I lift my lamp beside the golden door. But for many immigrants, ...

Banter’ about where you’re from or how you speak is harder to define than racism or sexism, but it is damaging.

Despite the sea change at EEOC, employers should continue to maintain a policy of nondiscrimination, according to Jonathan Hyman, shareholder at Wickens Herzer Panza. The U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 ...

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Even in workplaces that aim to be fair, discrimination can slip by unnoticed. New research finds that when Asian Americans experience potentially biased treatment at work, others are less likely to ...

Ageism in the workplace occurs when someone is treated unfairly or unfavorably because of their age. It may involve an employee being passed over for promotion or being prevented from taking on ...

In December 2025, Andrea Lucas, the chair of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, invited white men to file more sex- and race-based discrimination complaints against their employers.