Law Firm for Gender Discrimination in the Workplace
Your professional success should be determined by your talent, your hard work, and your qualifications. Yet, far too often, careers are limited by outdated prejudice about gender. Whether it manifests as a denied promotion, unequal pay, or a hostile work environment, gender discrimination in all its forms is illegal and unacceptable. Our gender discrimination attorneys can help you get justice.
At Underdog Law Office, we’re dedicated to fighting for the rights of employees. Because we only ever represent individuals — never corporations — our focus is always on your best interests. If your career has been unfairly impacted by gender discrimination, contact our gender discrimination law firm for a free consultation to understand your options.
What Are the Different Types of Gender Discrimination?
Gender discrimination can be deeply embedded in a company’s culture, creating barriers at every stage of employment. This unlawful bias can take many forms.
Common examples of illegal gender discrimination include:
- Hiring and Promotion Bias: Being passed over for a job or a promotion you’ve earned in favor of a less-qualified candidate of a different gender.
- Unequal Pay: Discovering that you are being paid less than a colleague of another gender who performs similar work and has similar experience. Oregon law has strong protections against gender-based pay gaps.
- Pregnancy and Parental Leave Discrimination: Facing demotion, termination, or other negative treatment after announcing a pregnancy, requesting maternity/paternity leave, or returning to work after having a child. Employers are required to provide reasonable accommodations and cannot penalize employees for their family status.
- Workplace Harassment: Being forced to endure a hostile work environment filled with sexist jokes, unwelcome advances, or demeaning comments related to your gender or gender identity.
Signs of Gender Discrimination
Proving discrimination often means identifying a pattern of unfair treatment, as employers rarely admit their actions are biased. These signs can be powerful indicators that your rights are being violated. The most common signs of gender discrimination in the workplace include:
- Being judged by a different set of standards than your colleagues of another gender (e.g., being called “abrasive” for the same assertive traits that are praised in others).
- Managers or coworkers make stereotypical comments about the abilities, roles, or family responsibilities of men or women.
- Desirable assignments, high-profile clients, and leadership opportunities seem to consistently flow to employees of one gender.
- During an interview or performance review, you are asked inappropriate personal questions about your plans for marriage or children.
- Exclusion from conversations, meetings, or social events that are important for career development and that are dominated by a single gender.
Gender Discrimination Law Firm in Portland
Taking a stand against gender discrimination is a powerful act of self-advocacy, and you should not have to face that battle alone. The attorneys at Underdog Law Office are here to level the playing field, providing strategic and tenacious representation to challenge even the largest employers.
Our firm was created to defend underdogs, and we are proud to represent victims of gender discrimination in their fight for justice. We are committed to dismantling the unfair barriers that hold you back and fighting for the professional respect and opportunity the law guarantees.
Call us today for a free, no-obligation consultation with our experienced legal team.
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