A measure to enable Maryland residents to select an unspecified gender on their driver's licenses has advanced in the state Senate.Senators gave the measure preliminary approval Wednesday.

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Some attorneys might have noticed that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg referred to "gender" and not "sex" bias in a recent opinion.

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Women still have a hard time getting small business loans. Sen. Maria Cantwell is determined to close the gap.

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Good news for tech-savvy women in Maryland—the gender pay gap is smaller in tech jobs.

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A federal jury has rejected a black woman’s allegations that she was fired from her job at the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission because of her race and gender.

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Does the gender gap in in-house counsel compensation surprise you?

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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the nation’s first-of-its-kind law in California prohibiting health practitioners from offering psychotherapy aimed at making gay youth straight. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that ...

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FREDERICK — A Justice Department official says the agency is looking into the death of man with Down syndrome after he was removed from a theater by sheriff’s deputies. Down syndrome advocates met Tuesday with officials from the Justice Department’s ...

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A female developer was fired after tweeting about a group of men she said were making sexual comments at a computer programming conference, fueling an already vigorous debate about gender equality and culture in Silicon Valley. ...

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Although she spent 14 years on Maryland’s highest court, retired Court of Appeals Judge Irma S. Raker says one of her most memorable decisions came in a sex discrimination case she heard as a Montgomery County circuit judge in 1984.

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