It’s no secret to California workplace discrimination lawyers that the barriers between the genders are falling it comes to discrimination and harassment in the workplace.  Even just a decade ago, it would've been relatively rare to have a man filing a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment in the workplace.  These lawsuits are actually on the rise.  According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the number of sexual harassment claims filed by men, doubled between 1990 and 2009.

However, it's not just sexual harassment lawsuits filed by men that are on the increase.  More numbers of men are coming forward to claim that they were passed over for promotions and other advancements in the workplace when their employers gave preference to women.  A workplace discrimination lawsuit filed this week by a man employed by comedian Jimmy Fallon, is an example of this.  The man, Paul Tarascio, a stagehand at NBC, claims that he lost his job because Fallon preferred a woman over him. 

Such incidences are becoming more and more common.  According to the EEOC, the number of male employees coming in to file complaints about preferential treatment for women is also on the increase.  Men seem to particularly complain about being passed over for certain jobs in favor of women, or not being able to land certain kinds of jobs, like secretarial jobs.

There is a range of discriminating practices in the workplace if these complaints are any indication.  For instance, more men are coming in to complain about getting lesser time off from work in order to care for a sick family member or child.  Men, who complain about harassment or any other form of discrimination in the workplace, also don't seem to have too many willing ears to listen to them.  A common complaint seems to be that harassment or discrimination complaints made by men in the workplace don't seem to be taken seriously by employers in the way that complaints filed by women are.