All Americans enjoy a basic set of rights in the workplace under federal law. Some states take it a step further, offering additional protections against sexual harassment and sex discrimination at the state level that the federal law does not cover. Fortunately for Iowans, Iowa law has additional prohibitions against employment discrimination that do not… [Read More]
Pervasive Workplace Sexual Harassment in Medicine
More than 1 in 10 female doctors and over 15 percent of all female residents have experienced sexual harassment within the last 3 years according to a Medscape Sexual Harassment of Physicians 2018 Report. Roughly half of the doctors reporting said that the person that harassed them was another physician. Unfortunately, sexual harassment against women… [Read More]
Workplace Sexual Harassment and Sex Discrimination
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Sexual harassment may include unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors or other verbal and physical harassment of a sexual nature. Nearly half of employed women report that they have been subject to unwelcome sexual advances in the workplace. In a recent Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, 48% of female… [Read More]
Workplace Sexual Harassment Claims
One of the most successful financial start-ups of the last decade, Social Finance (aka SoFi), is now under scrutiny for an age old problem, sexual harassment in the workplace. Like Uber and capital firms such as 500 Startups who have faced similar accusations of sexual harassment, SoFi has been forced to part ways with at… [Read More]
