Federal and state law prohibit sex or gender discrimination in employment. Sex discrimination occurs when an employer fires, demotes, fails to hire, or fails to promote an employee because of the employee's gender. While sex discrimination most often occurs against women, it is also illegal to discriminate against a man or nonbinary person because of their sex or gender.
Sex discrimination also includes discriminating against an employee because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. It also includes pregnancy discrimination and sexual harassment.
Pay discrimination on the basis of sex or gender is also illegal. An Equal Pay attorney can help you if you are being paid less than someone of another sex for substantially equal work.
The attorneys at Elzer Law Firm have extensive experience in sex discrimination cases. If you believe you lost a job or a promotion because of your sex, please contact a Pittsburgh gender discrimination lawyer today.