It said the Civil Rights Act prevents her from bringing a suit based on sex discrimination.
Nevertheless, the two women sued Russell Abrams and Titan Capital in July alleging sex discrimination.
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Wal-Mart is asking a federal appeals court in San Francisco to dismiss a sex discrimination lawsuit.
The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled that restricting marriage to heterosexual couples was sex discrimination.
It was the first time a company had been held liable for sex discrimination in promotion.
Wal-Mart has been at the centre of a massive sex discrimination class action lawsuit.
Any reluctance to hire them would be a clear breach of sex discrimination laws.
But the government's Sex Discrimination (Election Candidates) Bill passed through its final Parliamentary stages this week.
With the help of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), she sued the company for sex discrimination.
Wal-Mart, a Lean In "partner, " is facing sex discrimination claims from 2, 000 female employees in 48 states.
In the complicated and sensitive legal realm of sex discrimination in the workplace, it really remains to be seen.
These laws require employers and schools to cease sex discrimination when it comes to public accommodations, jobs and sports.
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The armed forces are exempt from the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act "for the purpose of ensuring the combat effectiveness".
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It also urged legislation to make employers in the private sector required to promote sex equality and eliminate sex discrimination.
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She has since won a sex discrimination claim against the party and, until recently, sat as an independent in Brussels.
Each year, the EEOC receives between 23, 000 and 25, 000 sex discrimination complaints.
It also settled two other sex discrimination cases in 2004 and 2005.
One aim of the Sex Discrimination Act (1975) was to challenge stereotypes.
The high court sided with a lower court, ruling that Nelson's termination did not constitute sex discrimination under the Iowa Civil Rights Act.
Title IX is a federal civic law in the U.S. which prohibits sex discrimination in education, therefore allowing women to compete in sports.
What we do know is that Zander will be in court next week defending himself and Motorola against a sex discrimination suit filed by Metty.
In May Merrill Lynch agreed to replace its mandatory policy with a voluntary one as part of a settlement of a class action sex discrimination suit.
Members of appeal panels must be trained on the admissions code and related law including the Sex Discrimination Act, Disability Discrimination Act and Race Relations Act.
The Democrats have also passed a long list of lesser bills, from investments in green technology to making it easier for women to sue for sex discrimination.
In 2003, when the Wal-Mart litigation was in its preliminary court stages, about 27, 000 sex discrimination claims nationwide were resolved administratively by the EEOC, little changed from the prior decade.
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The denial is still striking, however, since in Wal-Mart the court struck down a class action on behalf of 1.5 million women who lawyers said all had suffered sex discrimination.
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Activists over the last decade "facilitated a couple of sex discrimination suits against corporations whose CEOs are (Augusta National) members, " Burk said, but she did not name any corporations or individuals.
The women's movement opened the doors to the executive suites for women like Rometty with 30 years of hard work that made sex discrimination in hiring and promotion in corporate America illegal.
And an EU directive from October 2001 maintains that in matters of sex discrimination over pay the onus is on the employer to prove itself free of discrimination, not the other way round.
Then, two days later, The New York Times first reported that Hermann was at the center of a sex discrimination suit at Louisville, where she worked for 16 years as a senior administrator.
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