An office worker at a lingerie warehouse claims she was fired for her busty physique and form-fitting outfits. With celebrity attorney Gloria Allred by her side, Lauren Odes announced on Monday that she had filed a complaint with the federal government for gender and religious discrimination.

If a woman claims that she was wronged because of her sexy body, you can bet the media is there to cover her travails. But the news cameras tend to disappear during the long slog of the legal process. If the case is subsequently dismissed or quietly settled, there's hardly a murmur in the media, and the struggles of these women to find new work doesn't make for an easy headline. Several women have gone through this: the media frenzy, the mocking comments, and the lengthy and quiet fight.

According to an analysis of 600,000 words, spoken at board meetings at seven top U.K. companies over 18 months, 90 percent of zingers said by men received a positive response, while 80 percent of jokes made by women received crickets chirping, and a lone tumbleweed rolling past the Starbucks cups.

Thirteen years later, Jasper's city council named Pearson (pictured at left) as its first black police chief. The town has changed a lot since Byrd's murder, and Pearson's election could have symbolized the Texas town finally overcoming its ugly past. But instead it's ripped the city apart, right down the color line.

Megia, 37, started working at The Cosmopolitan Resort and Casino in Las Vegas in November 2010, answering the phone when guests called for room service, and occasionally assisting in making deliveries. When she started showing signs of pregnancy in March 2011, her supervisor started making derogatory comments about it, and giving her dirty looks, according to the complaint.

The Danish provocateur (pictured at left) took the opportunity to rejoice in the lack of women in tech. All great inventions have come from men, he explained, except for the "rolling pin." He ended by urging all the men in attendance to go home and tell their wives and girlfriends, "Shut up bitch." Dell's Danish CEO then reportedly took the stage to compliment him on his performance.

There was no other job available, so Patricia says she kept working at the same farm, for the same foreman, who kept raping her. She let him, because she was afraid that if she didn't he would hurt her. She had no relatives in the U.S., and was afraid to tell her family in Mexico. When Patricia got pregnant, she sought help from a social service agency. Without them, she never would have filed a police report.

In the movie version, intrepid housewife-turned-reporter Susan Sarandon endeavors to find the truth. But in real life, it was a different, even stranger story. After police uncovered a fingerprint in 2010, the dentist's assistant, Shontay Hickman, confessed to hiring a hitman to kill Ro, reports CBS.

She admitted to embezzling $17,000 from her boss, and paying then-19-year-old Dante Jeter $1,000 to kill Ro because she was terrified of getting caught. A week before the murder, Ro (pictured above) had hired an office worker to go through his records after patients had complained that they were getting billed for payments they'd already made, according to The Baltimore Sun.

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The school superintendent later claimed that the comments by Imelda Paredes, a ninth-grade teacher at San Benito Veterans Memorial Academy, were the result of a bad reaction to medication. But Paredes, who had been honored by the San Benito School District as Teacher of the Year in 2007, insisted that she said those things "because it's true."

Paredes, 42, began her 12-minute speech by describing how Jesus had fallen in love with Mary Magdelene when he was 12. Continuing in Spanish, she explained that he impregnated her before his crucifixion.

Paredes said that she and Jesus will marry one day because she is Mary Magdelene and has stayed up all night chatting with the Son of God. Wedding preparations were already underway in Heaven, she added.

It was John Chase Jr.'s first year as principal at the new Bronxdale High School, when the department of education investigated him, and confirmed in November that he had made lewd comments to female subordinates.

In an anonymous survey in April, only 12 percent of faculty and staff said that they planned to stay at Shorter University, a 139-year-old Baptist school, reports Inside Higher Ed. More than 50 resigned before the new contracts were even distributed, and certain departments, such as science and fine arts, have been "eviscerated," according to Michael Wilson, a tenured librarian for the university who's worked there for 14 years.

But if you get incredibly drunk on that alcohol, and shatter a glass that slices your arm, ultimately killing you from extreme blood loss, are the casino employees responsible?

Three weeks ago, Ila Parish filed a lawsuit against Carnival Corp., reports The Southeast Texas Record, for negligence by "fostering a party atmosphere," and failing to properly train its staff.

Some of the eight men had worked for the less-than-truckload carrier company for over 20 years. According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the company tightened its attendance and disciplinary rules so that the older men were suddenly put on corrective action for a few past infractions. Then in August 2007, they were fired.

While conceding that she is an alcoholic, Ziegler claims that she'd never been drunk at work or school, and she argues that her dismissal amounts to disability discrimination because alcoholism is protected under the Americans With Disabilities Act. In her complaint, filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, she also alleges sex discrimination, claiming that two male employees had been arrested for drunken driving and were actually promoted to management afterwards. Another man, she alleges, was hired, despite a DUI on his record.

But that's reportedly been happening at their development project, after they decided to use mostly non-union labor. Some say that the city's unions haven't stretched their muscle this much in 25 years.

Thirtyfive-year-old Matthew and 31-year-old Michael have already developed five apartment buildings in the city, with little noise from Philly unions.

It wasn't clear, however, that Patino's employer had done anything illegal. No court in the country has ever held a company responsible for the gay harassment suffered by an employee. But this past Friday, the Connecticut Supreme Court did. Patino, who will be 73 next week, was awarded $94,500, reports the Hartford Courant.