Rapunzel's concern regarding employment discrimination based on gender arose outof the following facts:

Rapunzel learnedthat there was a long-standing practice at Tower Corporation of pay inequity.Male managers and assistant managers consistently made more money than female managers and assistant managers, even after accounting for experience, training, and seniority.Additionally, females were often passed over for promotions and an e-mail was discovered in which a senior executive at Tower Corporation told a personnel supervisor not to hire or promote women because they were too emotional.Moreover, Tower Corporation required that all managers be able to carry a 60 lb. bag, allegedly because managers sometimes had to help customers to their cars (although in actuality, no manager was ever called upon to do so.)This requirement prevented a significant percentage offemale employees from being promoted to managerial positions at the company, although it only disqualified a small percentage of the male employees who sought promotion to Manager.Lastly, there were many documented cases where female employees were touched by their male colleagues in sexual ways at work, female employees were asked to perform sexual favors by their supervisors, and strippers routinely performed in the office at lunch time and immediately after the work day was concluded.

Which legal issues can you identify based on the above facts?

a.Only the allegation regarding pay inequity is a violation of anti-discrimination laws.

b.Only the allegation regarding disparate treament discrimination, where female employees are passed over for promotion (and may have impediments to being hired) simply because of their status as women, is a violation of anti-discrimination laws.

c.Only the allegations regarding quid pro quo sexual harassment, where a female employee feels that she must accept the sexual advances of a supervisor or risk firing, demotion, or loss of promotion, and hostile environment sexual harassment, where the enviroment at work is so sexually charged and uncomfortable that it interferes with a woman's ability to perform the functions of her job appropriately, are violations of anti-discrimination laws.

d.All of the claims listed above raise legal issues and constitute potential violations of state and federal anti-discrimination in employment laws.