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For both women and men, it is important to be able to be yourself all the time, but most specifically in the workplace.  While certain behaviors like poor language and inappropriate humor should always be left at home, a person’s personal and gender traits cannot be expected to be saved for outside the office.  This is why gender stereotypes are prevented in anti-sex or gender discrimination law.

An example of gender stereotypes can be applied to both sexes.  If a man is passed over for a job solely because he acts too feminine, this would be considered gender discrimination based on gender stereotypes.  If a woman is not given a promotion she deserves because her behavior is considered too masculine, she, too, is a victim of gender discrimination based on gender stereotypes.  Of course, this has to be provable before it can successfully go to court.

It is the belief of a lot of people that gender discrimination, especially discrimination against women, died out in the 1970s.  Women can have any job they desire, and the legislation protecting them is solid and has been upheld by the court system time and time again.  But are all employers truly supporting women better than they used to almost four decades ago, or are some of them still slipping through the cracks?

Unfortunately, some of today’s largest employers in the United States are being found guilty – or are being sued in open court – by female employees who claim they have been discriminated against.  Wal-Mart is one of these employers.  A judgment by the ninth circuit court of appeals decided in February of 2007 that the equal pay suit against Wal-Mart could be considered a class action suit representing 1.5 million female Wal-Mart employees.  This is the biggest class action suit in history, and it proves that gender discrimination is not dead.

Sexual discrimination is always making the headlines in the United States.  It is a huge problem, and the country and Federal government is trying its best to beat the problem of sexual discrimination all over the 50 states.  But is it only a problem in the US?  The answer is a resounding “no”.  In fact, recently, there have been claims of sexual discrimination all over the world: counties like Israel, the Cayman Islands, India, and the Czech Republic are all finding female citizens who have been subjected to sexual discrimination.

So why is it that these complaints are just rising out of the woodwork now?  Many experts think that it is not a coincidence that the complaints are coming up now.  With the attention that is being paid to sexual discrimination in the US, and the growth of the women’s rights movement on an international scale, it seems it was only a matter of time before women in other countries started standing up against discrimination.