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Many women never mention menopause while at work, even if they're having these embarrassing and significant symptoms, they don't reveal these symptoms because they don't want to be viewed as less competent, and discussing menopause may even threaten their job security, while greater efforts need to be made to raise awareness about menopause and to provide education, support and protection to women who are navigating menopause at work.

Under the federal law known as the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, your pregnancy-related condition may be considered a temporary disability, which may include chronic morning sickness, doctor-ordered bed rest, childbirth and the recovery from it, and any other related medical condition. So when you’re pregnant, your employer must provide you with the same treatment and benefits that it gives to employees with other temporary disabilities.

It is wrong – and illegal – under both New York and federal law to discriminate against an employee based upon sex or gender identification. This means that with respect to all important job aspects – such as promotions – an employer cannot treat one person differently than others based upon gender. If you feel that an uncomfortable workplace situation or severe hostility would not have happened to you if you were a man, then you’re experiencing sex discrimination, and it’s illegal.

Sexual harassment is a form of sex discrimination in the workplace, though it’s sometimes referred to as gender discrimination in some city or state anti-discrimination laws. Sexual harassment is unwanted behavior in the workplace that happens to you because of your sex, in other words, because of who you are as woman, or much less frequently, because of who you are as a man. In other words, if you weren’t a woman, your boss would not have subjected you to unwelcome sexual advances.