Gender discrimination or sexual discrimination, is any action that specifically denies opportunities, privileges, or rewards to a person because of gender. When gender is a factor in other decisions about employment opportunities or benefits, that too is gender discrimination. While most discrimination charges claim that a woman (or women) was discriminated against in favor of a man (or men), there have also been cases where males have claimed that they have been discriminated against on the basis of gender. These cases are usually referred to as "reverse discrimination." In addition to gender discrimination in hiring and other circumstances, there is a particular form of sexual discrimination called sexual harassment. This form of discrimination involves inappropriate words or actions of a sexual nature directed at one employee by another. The second type of sexual harassment is referred to as "hostile work environment." In these types of cases, an employee, or a group of employees, repeatedly make lewd comments or suggestive noises, make unwanted sexual advances, or otherwise use sex to create a work environment that is intimidating or threatening to others.

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