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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Sara Raley, sociology professor at McDaniel College, has received the SAGE/ASA Teaching Innovations & Professional Development Award ...

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When a former San Mar Children’s Home employee talked about her spouse at work, she says she was made to sign a document saying she would not discuss her “personal relationship” or “particular lifestyle choice” during work hours. Sarah Rutledge, ...

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As the oldest child of first-generation Korean immigrants, I honestly never paid that much attention to my status as a minority. I was born here in the United States, and English is still my dominant language (much to the chagrin ...

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DOVER, Del. — A federal appeals court is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit claiming that former Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann Minner discriminated against a state trooper because of his gender. Minner is appealing a federal judge’s refusal to ...

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Norfolk Southern Railway Co. has agreed to pay $60,000 to an employee who said she was discriminated against because of her gender. Kathryn Class said she was unfairly removed from training to become a yardmaster because she would have become ...

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Thirty-one percent of Maryland judges at the state and federal level are women, according to a new report. The study, by the University at Albany in New York, ranks Maryland 10th among all states and Washington, D.C., for gender diversity ...

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