Abstract
As of June 2012, 21 states, Washington, D.C., and many localities prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of sexual orientation. In the majority of U.S. jurisdictions, however, employment decisions based on sexual orientation are not subject to state or local legal restrictions. And, although previously proposed, no federal law exists that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation for hiring, promotion, compensation, or termination decisions. Sexual minorities are consequently legally vulnerable in most of the United States.
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Portions of this chapter are revised or reprinted by permission from Same-Sex Partners: The Social Demography of Sexual Orientation by Amanda K. Baumle, D’Lane R. Compton, and Dudley L. Poston Jr., the State University of New York Press ©2009, State University of New York.
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Baumle, A.K. (2013). The Demography of Sexuality and the Labor Market. In: Baumle, A. (eds) International Handbook on the Demography of Sexuality. International Handbooks of Population, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5512-3_13
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