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The article highlights the settlement between General Electric Co. (GE) and its former attorney Lorene Schaefer of a gender-discrimination lawsuit. Schaefer, former general counsel at GE Transportation, filed the lawsuit in May 2007, which accuses officials of giving unfair preference to men in promotions in top legal jobs. A joint statement issued by GE and Schaefer said that GE was appreciative that Schaefer was willing to resolve the dispute and that Schaefer thanks GE for engaging in this constructive discussions.

The article provides information on the ever prevailing gender bias in the U.S. politics. It said claimed that though there have been a few active women politicians like Secretary of the State Hillary Rodham Clinton and North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue, there is still a likelihood of women to be singled out in the face of politics. However, National Organization for Women Inc. (NOW) president Kim Gandy argues that women have a tantamount capability of running a country as men do

Equal opportunities policies, and other programmes for the elimination of racial and sexual discrimination at work, frequently place great store by the formalisation of the recruitment process. This article suggests that such recommendations fail to take account of the nature of recruitment to most occupations. This point is developed by the presentation of both a typology of modes of discrimination in the recruitment process and an empirical case study.