A court the U.K. has said calling a man "bald" is sexist. The judge the court said using the word could break equality laws. The judge said this was because the word bald is "inherently related to gender". This means that because most people who are bald are men, it is wrong to use the word a man. This sex discrimination case came after a worker took his company court. The boss called the worker bald. The worker said he had an argument his boss. The boss angrily called the worker "bald" and fired him. The worker won a case unfair dismissal the court. The judge said the word bald was harmful, and that using it was sexual harassment.
The court had to decide if the word bald was simply an insult, or whether it was harassment. Lawyers the boss' company said calling a man bald was not sexual harassment. They said that women can also be bald. court, they argued that: " order to be related to sex, it would have to apply to that sex to the exclusion the other sex." They said that because women can also be bald, it could not be harassment. A court judge disagreed the boss' lawyers. She said that commenting a man's baldness is the same as a man making comments parts a woman's body. The lead judge said the word bald was related to gender. He said this was because more men than women are bald.
