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Harassment, intimidation and sabotage are a major reason why women do not enter or remain in jobs in the construction industry, according to a provocative and hard hitting study on women in construction by the National Women's Law Center.

Anyone who wants a job next year at Anne Arundel Medical Center -- whether as a surgeon or security guard – will have to prove they don't smoke or use tobacco.

A very unsettling shadow is settling over the whole American educational endeavor. It's largely a consequence of the idea that every child should graduate from high school, be admitted to college and then graduate from college. In order to make that happen, all along the way expectations would have to be lowered. That, unfortunately, involves giving in to the bigotry of low expectations.

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Economists should be bound by facts and reason. I simply can't embrace liberal positions on the minimum wage, climate change and gender discrimination, and call myself a scientist.

This was the promise: No longer would African-Americans be forced to pick up their meals from the back door of restaurants. No longer would they need to fear being unable to find lodgings on their way home from a trip.

When Brian Stewart accused a local fraternity chapter at Morgan State University of discriminating against him for being gay, the university stressed its commitment to diversity and began investigating. The two results, Stewart said Tuesday, were that the Alpha Iota chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi was placed on probation for breaking university discrimination policies, and Stewart became an even bigger target of harrassment on the school's Baltimore campus.

Republican Senator Allan H. Kittleman has been regarded as a hero among LGBT folks throughout the state for bucking his party's positions and standing up forcefully to advance the cause of same-sex marriage. He had also been recognized as a stalwart supporter of non-discrimination protections on the basis of gender identity. In doing so, he was the sole GOP Senator to speak out and vote for both pieces of legislation.

Walking on the opposite side of a street from potential robbers is not a concession to cultural stereotypes if it saves your life

Protecting rights of transgender individuals makes Maryland a better place for all

Observers wonder whether Cornell Brooks, the new president of the NAACP, will be a cipher or a savior for the Baltimore-based organization.

Debating whether any person is unworthy of protections that contribute to their basic safety and security is shameful enough, but mischaracterizing your target as perverse and criminal in order to deny them fundamental rights is truly the lowest common denominator. One thing we all should be able to agree on is that it is wrong to subject people to harassment, assault, and violence, no matter what, and that protection from such injustices is a basic human right.

Federal government agencies are not living up to equal employment opportunity mandate

NAACP selected attorney Cornell William Brooks as its new president and CEO, at a board of directors meeting in Fort Lauderdale Friday.

The Social Security Administration has failed to establish an adequate process for handling discrimination claims from employees and has caused concerns about conflicts of interest in some of those cases, according to a scathing federal report obtained Tuesday by The Baltimore Sun.

Opponents of equality need to get their minds out of the bathroom and recognize the very real discrimination, violence and alienation transgender people suffer.

In New York City in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, when city laws made it illegal to serve gay patrons or hire gay employees, it took a lot of money and clout for a gay establishment to stay ahead of the vice police and remain open.

A federal judge in Washington has dismissed the high-profile discrimination lawsuit of a Gallaudet University official who claimed she was unfairly demoted for signing a petition to put Maryland's same-sex marriage law to referendum.

While the Supreme Court decision in the Michigan affirmative action case was regrettable, there is still much colleges can do to boost diversity

'Ban the box' law is a modest first step

Upper Chesapeake Health System agreed to pay $180,000 to settle a disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought on behalf of a former employee of the organization's Upper Chesapeake Medical Center in Bel Air, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday.

Interview with Deborah Eisenberg, U.Md. associate professor of law and equal pay advocate

Former Terps forward, now 67 and living in Florida, looks back at becoming the first African-American to earn a scholarship in the conference

Baltimore County discriminated against older employees by requiring them to contribute more to their pensions than younger employees, a federal appeals court ruled this week.

Legislation barring discrimination against trans-gender people passed the General Assembly Thursday, after the House of Delegates approved it following an impassioned debate. The bill cleared the Senate earlier this month. After the House voted 82-57 to pass the bill, Gov. Martin O'Malley said he would sign the measure.

Republican opponents stoop to misguided fears of bathroom invasions to oppose anti-discrimination protections that most Marylanders support

Six Maryland lawmakers signed a letter asking President Barack Obama to sign an executive order protecting LGBT employees from discrimination.

If Baltimore's law prohibiting unfair discrimination against people with criminal records helps boost employment and grow the city's population everyone stands to gain

Gregory Lawrence has fought the Maryland Aviation Administration over alleged discrimination before, and now plans to do so again following his termination as acting fire chief last week.

The Maryland Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would prohibit discrimination against transgender people. The Fairness for All Marylanders Act, which passed the Senate 32 to 15, now goes to the House of Delegates.

Tomi B. Finkle was turned down for a volunteer in a Howard County Police Department mounted patrol, and now she's suing the county in federal court for employment discrimination, a complaint that could potentially bolster the case law on legal protection for transgender people.

A bill that would protect transgender people from discrimination in jobs, housing and other areas gained preliminary approval Friday in the Senate.

Transgender people and their advocates urged a panel of senators Tuesday to help make Maryland the 18th state to protect them from discrimination in housing, at work and in public places. Lawmakers have considered expanding anti-discrimination laws to include transgender people every year since 2007. But advocates say changing attitudes and a groundswell of high-profile support make 2014's debate different.

Transgender people want to be treated fairly and equally

President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to LGBT equality around the globe in Tuesday night's State of the Union speech.

Failure to include lesbian wedding announcement put Catholic school in difficult position