Is compulsory sport events, e.g. Giant game, a form of sex discrimination?

Question

I really have no interest in sports event organized by my company, but am forced to attend. Most of my teammates are guys.

Is this a form of gender discrimination or am I over-reacting as some women, although a smaller % than men, are interested in sports? Am I making a big fuss if I want to ask them to hold gender-neutral events instead?

Answer 1

Discriminating against an individual based on his or her sex or gender is illegal.

There are many ways in which employers discriminate. An employer may be discriminating against you if he or she is:
- failing or refusing to hire you,
- failing or refusing to refer you for employment,
- interfering with you employment opportunities with another employer,
- firing you,
- failing or refusing to give you pension benefits,
- denying you a raise or promotion, especially when raises are the norm for workers who perform satisfactory work,
- limiting, classifying, or segregating you in any way that deprives you of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect your employment or your potential employment status,
- refusing to select you for or discharging you from any program established to provide apprenticeship or other job training to you, or
- harassing an employee, in California.
- creating a hostile work environment
- intentionally creating objectively intolerable working conditions or knowingly allowing them to exist

This may not fit into any of these "reasons" unless a reasonable person would consider going to a sporting event intolerable working conditions.

Answer 2

Sounds to me like YOU are the sexes one. YOU are the one assuming women don't want to go to sporting events or would enjoy them less. But in answer to your question, No it is not a form of discrimination. And what pray tell is a gender-neutral event? Are you telling me that you can actually come up with an event that is preferred equally by both men and women? Ha! I would like to hear it.

Answer 3

You are not "forced" to attend, you have the right not to, however, you might be looked on less favorably by management if you do and get shut out of the office cooler chatter inside information. Lots of guys are not into sports either, but go to stay in the loop and be a team player for their company. It is your choice.

A better solution is to learn to be team player for your company regardless of what it consists of. If you are not, that would be a good reason to eliminate/terminate you...it would not be sexual discrimination...it would be failure to be a team player.

Answer 4

Are you being made to attend BECAUSE of your gender? Then it isn't illegal discrimination. As long as you are on company time they have a lot of discretion in telling you where to go and what to watch. If this is unpaid time, you have a legal issue, but it's not discrimination.

Answer 5

I feel the need to vomit. If work requires me to attend workers comp meetings on how to lift a 30 pound box, then you have to go to a sports event. Things cut both ways.

Answer 6

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