Over 27,000 claims filed through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in fiscal year 2013 alleging sex discrimination (sex-based charges). Most of these gender-related allegations involve gender discrimination. Stephanie Sipe and Donna K. Fisher, both professors at Georgia Southern University, and C. Douglas Jonson, a professor at Georgia Gwinnett University, say: “Gender discrimination occurs when employers make decisions such as selection, evaluation, promotion or awarding rewards at work. basis of an individual's gender” (Sipe, Johnson, and Fisher 342). Most of the time gender discrimination is suffered against women in the field of work, where females are considered inferior compared to males in the same organization. In today's world, society has come a long way from the general stereotype that men bring home the bacon and women stay home to cook it. Today, women are in the workplace and working alongside the opposite sex. Even though the general feminist stereotype has died out, women are still not promoted as much as men in the workplace. Contrary to the first definition of gender discrimination, Julie Walters, a professor at Oakland University, and Connie L. McNeely, a professor at George Mason University, point out that “even in the 21st century, women faculty are generally paid less, promoted by more slowly, receive less recognition and hold fewer leadership positions than their male counterparts, discrepancies that do not appear to be based on productivity or any other objective measure of performance” (323). Sex discrimination is easily represented in all companies and can be slightly difficult to recognize, however it still exists. Data shows that women in the workplace are discriminatory...... half of paper ......4.4 (2009): 79-83. Premier corporate source. EBSCO. Network. October 24, 2014. Kelan, Elisabeth K. “Gender Fatigue: Disguising Gender Discrimination in Organizations.” Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2008): 1-6. Business Source Premier Web. October 16, 2014. Sipe, Stephanie C., Douglas Johnson, and Donna K. Fisher “College Student Perceptions of Gender Discrimination in the Workplace: Fact vs. Fiction.” Journal of Education for Business 84.6 (2009): 339-349. MasterFILE Premier. EBSCO. Web. October 16, 2014. “Charges Based on Sex” http://www.eeoc.gov /eeoc/statistics/enforcement/sex.cfmWalters, Julie and Connie L. McNeely “Recast Title IX: Addressing Gender Equity in Professor of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Policy Research Review 27.3 (2010): 317 -332. 2014.