gender discrimination

Advocates Believe Gender Discrimination Laws Need to be Reformed

February 1, 2014 | by Nassiri Law

A recent study finds millennial women in the workforce tend to experience less gender disparity than their older counterparts, though it continues to be a top concern. What’s less clear, though, is what exactly should be done about the problem.

The report by the Pew Research Center, released in December, found women in the millennial generation earn, on average, 93 percent of what their male counterparts earn. Across all age groups, women earn 84 percent as much as men.

Our Orange County gender discrimination lawyers know that young women were more likely than young men to say society favors men. They are also more likely – 72 percent to 61 percent, respectively – to say more needs to be done to ensure workplace equality. And 75 percent of millennial women, as opposed to 57 percent of millennial men, say the country needs to do more to bring about equality in the workplace.

Gender Bias in Tech Profession Needs to be Addressed

January 31, 2014 | by Nassiri Law

Gender bias continues to be a problem in many sectors but the problem of gender bias is a significant issue in the technology industry.

Our Los Angeles employment discrimination lawyers know that discrimination permeates many fields, particularly the tech industry.

In 2012, women held more than 57 percent of occupations that require a four-year degree. But they filled just 25 percent of jobs in what the Department of Labor defines as “computer and mathematical occupations.”

California Discrimination Lawsuits Impacted by Wal-Mart v. Dukes Decision

September 28, 2013 | by Nassiri Law

It’s been little more than two years since the U.S. Supreme Court shot down a massive class action gender discrimination lawsuit on behalf of thousands of women who worked for retail giant Wal-Mart.

Since then, the Wal-Mart v. Dukes decision has been cited more than 1,200 times by state and federal courts handling similar types of complaints, some against retailers, such as Family Dollar Stores, others against government contractors, such as Lockheed Martin Corp. and even in the publishing industry, with one large case involving Hearst Corp.

It’s impossible to deny the impact this pro-business decision had on discrimination litigation. However, where it has primarily hit the hardest has been with regard to larger, class-action cases. That’s because the primary issue in the Dukes decision was not whether Wal-Mart had discriminated against women, as alleged. Rather, the court was charged with determining whether members of the class had enough in common to allow the case to move forward.

Wage Disparity For Women Grounds for Discrimination Lawsuit

July 15, 2013 | by Nassiri Law

We tend to think of higher education institutions as harbingers of more progressive thought and policies, ahead of the curve on issues of equality and fairness.

Unfortunately, as our Costa Mesa wage dispute lawyers know, this is not always the case. It’s rare, though, to see it stated as blatantly as it was by administrators at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law in a recent memorandum regarding pay raises.

We know that as recently as 2012, women on the whole earned 77 percent of what men did and that it’s further estimated by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that this gender wage gap isn’t going to be fully closed until sometime around 2060. That doesn’t mean we won’t continue to fight for it to happen sooner.