Sex Discrimination Case Database

The Sex Discrimination Case Database includes records of recent sex discrimination lawsuits -- between 1994 and 2004 -- in which women workers won. WAGE is the only organization or institution to compile these cases in one place. The U.S. has a uniform method for reporting, recording, and collecting crime statistics, but no such system exists for tracking complaints of sex or wage discrimination through the highly uncoordinated, decentralized maze of local, state, and federal administrative offices, commissions, agencies, and courts that handle such complaints.

The sex discrimination cases in this database document the pervasive and destructive discrimination at work that women continue to face. In some cases, women workers settled out of court with their employers. In other cases, juries or judges decided in favor of the women and awarded damages and attorney costs. In still other cases, consent decrees were issued requiring employers to institute specific policies to eliminate sex discrimination from their workplace. These consent decrees outline a variety of strategies to end sex discrimination that women workers could press for and employers could institute before a lawsuit becomes necessary. Click here for information on consent decrees.

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