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This topic contains all articles and case reports dealing with Sex Discrimination. They are shown in reverse chronological order, with the most recently published being listed first.

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I mentioned last month that I would write about the interesting decision of Israel's National Labour Court in 2008 on sexual harassment that we were told about on our visit there in June. Chief Judge Steve Adler has kindly provided me with an English translation of his opinion.

The Women into Construction project, established by the Olympic Delivery Authority, provides a framework for the greater inclusion of women in the male-dominated construction industry. Carol Foster examines what it entails.

The Royal Air Force has implemented a gender recruitment strategy to encourage girls to consider careers in science, technology, engineering and maths in order to try and meet the organisation's demands for technically competent personnel. Carol Foster investigates.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has introduced measures to stem the loss of women from the accountancy profession. Kate Godwin looks at how the "Narrowing the Gap" programme improves the retention of experienced female professionals.

The European Commission's Equality Directorate focuses on tackling discrimination on the six prohibited grounds using a dual approach of "mainstreaming" and adopting specific action. Belinda Pyke describes the Directorate's work.

An employment tribunal finds that disciplinary proceedings for gross misconduct were instigated against an employee because she had insisted on returning to the same role she held before she went on maternity leave. Doran v Cromwell Garage Limited (ET/1311497/09, 13 Apr 2010)

A claimant who was made redundant while she was on maternity leave was not dismissed because of her pregnancy. Aitken v International Asset Management Limited (ET/2302358/09, 31 Mar 2010)

An employer is found liable for direct discrimination, sexual harassment and victimisation where it failed to deal with complaints from a female employee about colleagues' use of and discussion about lap dancing clubs, and discouraged the employee from making a formal complaint about a sexual assault. The tribunal found that the employer did not follow its own equal opportunities policy and made recommendations that it review its policies and training to ensure managers understood their obligations. Furlong v BMC Software Limited (ET/2701283/09, 14 Jun 2010)

An employment tribunal holds that although a comment made by a director of the respondent company was offensive and sexist, it was not sufficiently serious to amount to harassment. Rowland v Cryo Store Ltd (ET/2302560/09, 29 Mar 2010)

Some 7% of people from ethnic minority backgrounds felt they had been refused a job for reasons of race, compared with just 1% of white people, reveals a new survey from the Communities and Local Government department. A higher proportion of people from ethnic minority backgrounds (5%) also felt they had experienced racial discrimination when seeking promotion, compared with 1% of white people.

The Government has announced its aim to ensure that by the end of this Parliament at least half of all new appointees being made to the boards of public bodies will be women.

Women comprise, on average, 22% of the boards of Opportunity Now member organisations - with this proportion rising to nearly 27% in public sector organisations.

The Fawcett Society has filed papers with the High Court seeking a judicial review of the Government's emergency Budget in June.

The EAT has held that to prove victimisation, it is sufficient to establish that a protected act was part of the reason for detrimental treatment. Pothecary Witham Weld v Bullimore (EAT, 29 Mar 2010)

An RAF officer who was removed from her job and lost out on promotion prospects because she was pregnant is found to have been directly discriminated against. An employment tribunal rejected the RAF’s defences of “combat effectiveness” and health and safety. It awarded £12,000 for injury to feelings and made recommendations that could help protect other pregnant women in the armed forces. Gregory v Royal Air Force (ET/2702885/08, 1 Jun 2010)

The latest report from the Tribunals Service shows that there were sizeable increases in the number of discrimination cases brought relating to all types of discrimination except sex discrimination (down 2%). The largest increase was in relation to age claims, which rose by 37% and are now not far behind the level of race claims.

The Government is reviewing the Women’s National Commission (WNC) as part of its review of all nondepartmental public bodies.

A new European Institute for Gender Equality has opened to add weight to the EU’s existing efforts to combat discrimination.

In response to an increased number of queries from higher education institutions, the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) has launched a revised guide on meeting the needs of staff and students who are planning to transition, or have transitioned, to their preferred gender.

A gender analysis of the June 2010 budget reveals that it will disproportionately affect women, with more than 70% of the revenue raised to come from female taxpayers, despite men earning more than women.