A federal appeals court ruled last week that Harrah's Entertainment's requirement for a female worker to wear makeup during her work doesn't amount to sexual discrimination.
The worker, Darlene Jespersen, was working as a bartender in Harrah's casino in Reno for 21 years. Jespersen was fired in 2000 after she refused to wear makeup according to her employee's requirement.

Jespersen's lawyers claimed that firing Jespersen is a case of sexual discrimination, but the Chief Judge Mary Schroeder disagreed and ruled that Harrah's policy of reasonable dress and grooming standards aren't sexually discriminative and this is not a case where an appearance requirement intended to be sexually provocative or tending to stereotype woman as sex objects.