Unless you’re involuntarily locked in the cellar of some Berkeley farm cooperative, being a Trump supporter does not make you an oppressed minority in America. At least according to one judge.
Tell that to Philadelphia accountant Greg Piatek, who sue…
Category: Discrimination
‘Beyond I Do’ campaign reveals why LGBTQ discrimination is still legal
It’s been nearly three years since the Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Hodges gave same-sex couples the right to marry in all 50 states. Yet despite that momentous progress, LGBTQ people across the country still lack basic protection from discri…
View More ‘Beyond I Do’ campaign reveals why LGBTQ discrimination is still legalFilm academy president accused of sexual harassment
Months into the reckoning of Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the group behind the Oscars) is looking into its own leadership.
John Bailey, who was elected president of the organization last year, is being investigated for …
Lyft faces discrimination lawsuit
Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the Independent Living Resource Center and two people who use wheelchairs, filed a class-action lawsuit today against Lyft. The plaintiffs allege the ride-hailing company discriminates against people who use wheelchairs by not making available wheelchair-accessible cars in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The case, filed in Alameda County Superior Court… Read More
Lyft faces discrimination lawsuit
Disability Rights Advocates, on behalf of the Independent Living Resource Center and two people who use wheelchairs, filed a class-action lawsuit today against Lyft. The plaintiffs allege the ride-hailing company discriminates against people who use wheelchairs by not making available wheelchair-accessible cars in the San Francisco Bay Area. The case, filed in Alameda County Superior […]
Facebook data is powering Stanford economist’s American inequality study
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Facebook is sharing some of your financial secrets with the world’s leading researchers. The tech giant has offered up some of its massive treasure trove of personal data to academia.
Stanford economics professor Raj Chetty has been leading a team working on an America inequality study, and in a move that’s quite rare for Facebook, the company made some of its user data available, Politico reported.
This direct participation from Facebook means researchers are not just scrapping data from the social network or using publicly available posts. Rather, Facebook is disclosing actual data that may include demographic information and social interactions. Read more…
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Woman gets email rejecting her for a job because she’s not a man
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Finding out you didn’t meet the requirements for a job you wanted is always tough to hear.
But, a company in Spain is facing an almighty backlash after it sent a candidate an email telling her she didn’t get hired because she isn’t a man.
Carla Forcada, who lives in Barcelona, Spain, applied for the role of account executive at PR agency Impulsa Comunicación. After sending her CV, she received an email from the PR firm telling her that they were looking for a man because the role would require work with Coca-Cola and Carglass accounts. She tweeted a screenshot of the email she received, which is written in Spanish, alongside the comment: “Unbelievable to think that some companies still don’t support gender equality in the workplace.” Read more…
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View More Woman gets email rejecting her for a job because she’s not a manDiane Keaton finally spoke up about Woody Allen, and you won’t like what she has to say
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Diane Keaton is standing by Woody Allen.
The Annie Hall actress defended the director on Twitter, writing, “Woody Allen is my friend and I continue to believe him.”
The tweet included a video clip of Allen’s 60 Minutes interview from 1992. In it, he dismisses his alleged molestation of Dylan Farrow, his adopted daughter with Mia Farrow, as “a total non-event,” and blames Mia for “coaching” Dylan to speak ill of him.
Woody Allen is my friend and I continue to believe him. It might be of interest to take a look at the 60 Minute interview from 1992 and see what you thinkhttps://t.co/QVQIUxImB1
— Diane Keaton (@Diane_Keaton) January 29, 2018 Read more…
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View More Diane Keaton finally spoke up about Woody Allen, and you won’t like what she has to sayWomen have resorted to farting to deflect sexual harassment
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And now, a dispatch from our sad reality: women are farting — or pretending to fart — in order to stave off sexual harassers.
A particularly salient example comes from the r/TwoXChromosomes subreddit. In a post called “I got my sexual aggressor fired from work today. I’m quite satisfied,” user ThankCod details her use of the fart to repel a co-worker who’d been “accidentally” touching her at the office.
SEE ALSO: Sharon Stone laughed for 10 seconds after a man asked if she’d ever faced sexual harassment
“I walked by him and turned my butt right next to his hand and just full on farted,” she wrote. “Loud and angry. It’s gross, I know. But if he’s going to make me feel gross and ‘claim my ass’ I’m going to make him feel gross and ‘claim his hand.'” Read more…
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View More Women have resorted to farting to deflect sexual harassmentAirbnb won’t stand for discrimination against Eagles fans
Airbnb doesn’t want angry Minneapolis hosts to leave Eagles fans in the cold for the Super Bowl.
The Eagles beat the Minnesota Vikings last weekend in Philadelphia to secure a spot in the big game on Feb. 4 in Minneapolis. Things got violent, w…
Aziz Ansari’s career isn’t over. So what happens now?
If Hollywood’s reckoning has made some people very, very uneasy, maybe that’s a good thing.
As Imran Siddiquee, a writer and filmmaker focused on race, gender, and pop culture points out, that discomfort in itself is a “necessary part of change…
Aziz Ansari accused of sexual misconduct, he responds
Aziz Ansari issued a statement Sunday night following an anonymous report from Babe 24 hours earlier, where a woman accused Ansari of sexual misconduct during a date the two went on in September.
In a statement to Mashable, Ansari essentially agreed …