It's related to democracy in the sense that interest groups have used a dysfunctional legal system to impose, through the threat of ruinous lawsuits, that which would be rejected by the public.
As far as interesting examples, here are some:
1. Men can't have any posters of women up in their cubicles or offices, but nobody says anything to women who have 'beefcake' posters in their offices or cubicles.
2. Men must follow a strict dress code, but women can seemingly wear whatever they want.
3. If a woman makes up sexual harassment claims, there is no penalty allowed against the woman. However, if the company believes them to be true, the man is fired. So there's really no official downside to making false accusations.
Number 1 and 2 are definately not true where I work. And we've never had a sexual harrassment claim I know of so I can't comment there.
As for the question, depends. If it means like certain people used the term to me in the past things such as not thinking racist jokes are funny or not using homophobic slurs to describe things you don't like, positive. If it means something like say calling the Christmas break Christmas-Hanukkah-Kwanzaa break like my university did, negative, atlhough even in that case it's a very small negative and really not something to complain about at all. In the end it's either a good thing, or a largely irrelevant thing.
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