What is Gender discrimination?
Gender Ground
If someone treats you less favourably because you are a different gender to someone else.
Gender includes male, female, transgender or nonbinary.
Pregnant women or women on maternity leave are also protected under the gender ground.
Under EU law, a transgender person who experiences discrimination arising from their gender reassignment, or transition, is also protected under the gender ground.
How do I know if I have experienced discrimination?
Discrimination is when someone treats you worse or ‘less favourably’ than another person is, has been, or would be treated, in a similar situation, because you fall under the ‘protected grounds’.
You can experience discrimination in four different ways:
- directly
- indirectly
- by imputation
- by association
Who can you complain to?
Complaints under the Employment Equality Acts and the Equal Status Acts are made to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).
The WRC deals with claims related to employment and to services or goods.
Gender discrimination claims can go to either the Circuit Court or the WRC.
Note that there are very strict timeframes to complain.
