As most of the employable people in the United States are already aware, any kind of discrimination in the workplace is illegal. Some kinds, like sexual orientation discrimination, is only prevented by state law in California and is not covered at all by Federal law; other types of discrimination, like sex or gender discrimination, is prevented by Federal law, particularly the Title VII law.
Sex or gender discrimination, simply put, is when an employer or company will not hire a person, passes over a person for a promotion, or fires a person based on their gender. In fact, any unfair treatment by the employer of the employee because of their gender is defined as discrimination under federal law. This kind of discrimination is considered illegal when it affects a person’s “terms or conditions of employment”; for example, if the person in question is not given vacation time because of their sex, that is discrimination.
