Equality Transformed

Author : Herman Belz
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412822696

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Equality Transformed by Herman Belz Pdf

A quarter-century after the enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, its legacy remains controversial. The statutory language intended to ensure equal opportunity to all individuals is now interpreted as authorizing both public and private employers to adopt preferential policies that benefit designated groups based on race and gender. Much the same transformation has occurred in federal contract programs: President Kennedy's executive order that required equal employment opportunity is now understood as mandating minority hiring with numerical goals tantamount to quotas. Herman Belz's "Equality Transformed: A Quarter-Century of Affirmative Action "traces this transformation of equality and how it was brought about by courts, regulatory agencies, and activists. The early champions of civil rights sought to eradicate impediments to advancement for the downtrodden; the ultimate aim was to create a truly colorblind society. Over the years, this goal, while still professed, became even more elusive. Preferences, goals, and timetables - "temporary" means for the attainment of a nondiscriminatory society - seemed to undermine that noble quest. "Equality Transformed "provides a textured history of affirmative action and its effects upon race relations and our democratic, egalitarian ideals. In recent years, under the impetus of the Reagan Justice Department, the Supreme Court has backed away, however hesitantly, from its earlier sympathy towards race-conscious remedies and preferential treatment. Belz's analysis of recent Supreme Court cases and their antecedents allows us to better understand both the tensions in our society and the fury that the Court has triggered with its recent civil rights pronouncements. Belz makes a strong case for hewing to a forward-looking rather than a backward-looking approach to eradicating discrimination. Anyone interested in the history, law, theory, or morality of affirmative action in employment will find "Equality Transformed "invaluable.

Author : Janet C. Gornick,Marcia K. Meyers
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781844673254

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Gender Equality by Janet C. Gornick,Marcia K. Meyers Pdf

In the labor market and workplace, anti-discrimination rules, affirmative action policies, and pay equity procedures exercise a direct effect on gender relations. But what can be done to influence the ways that men and women allocate tasks and responsibilities at home? In Gender Equality, Volume VI in the Real Utopias series, social scientists Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers propose a set of policies—paid family leave provisions, working time regulations, and early childhood education and care—designed to foster more egalitarian family divisions of labor by strengthening men’s ties at home and women’s attachment to paid work. Their policy proposal is followed by a series of commentaries—both critical and supportive—from a group of distinguished scholars, and a concluding essay in which Gornick and Meyers respond to a debate that is a timely and valuable contribution to egalitarian politics.

Author : Herman Belz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Affirmative action programs
ISBN : OCLC:1193408764

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Equality Transformed by Herman Belz Pdf

Author : Sheila Aikman,Elaine Unterhalter
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0855985291

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Beyond Access by Sheila Aikman,Elaine Unterhalter Pdf

This book combines analysis of policy and empirically based studies on gender, education, and development.

Author : R. Honeyford
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1412836255

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The Commission for Racial Equality by R. Honeyford Pdf

A critical look at the U.K.'s Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), patterned after the American Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). The author seeks to show that there has been a serious misrepresentation of multiracial realities in Britain, and argues against granting expanded power to the CRE under the new Labour government. He also looks at the U.S. experience with CORE and cautions against following the American road, which, he contends, has led away from successful "melting pot" society to a fragmented and unstable country. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Author : Iris Bohnet
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674089037

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What Works by Iris Bohnet Pdf

Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back and de-biasing minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. Behavioral design offers a new solution. Iris Bohnet shows that by de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts—often at low cost and high speed.

Author : Benjamin M. Superfine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107016927

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Equality in Education Law and Policy, 1954-2010 by Benjamin M. Superfine Pdf

Examines how the concept of equality in education law and policy has transformed from Brown v. Board of Education through the Stimulus.

Author : Joyce P. Kaufman,Kristen P. Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134772759

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Women, Gender Equality, and Post-Conflict Transformation by Joyce P. Kaufman,Kristen P. Williams Pdf

The end of formal hostilities in any given conflict provides an opportunity to transform society in order to secure a stable peace. This book builds on the existing feminist international relations literature as well as lessons of past cases that reinforce the importance of including women in the post-conflict transition process, and are important to our general understanding of gender relations in the conflict and post-conflict periods. Post-conflict transformation processes, including disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programs, transitional justice mechanisms, reconciliation measures, and legal and political reforms, which emerge after the formal hostilities end demonstrate that war and peace impact, and are impacted by, women and men differently. By drawing on a strong theoretical framework and a number of cases, this volume provides important insight into questions pertaining to the end of conflict and the challenges inherent in the post-conflict transition period that are relevant to students and practitioners alike.

Author : Weeratunge,N.,Chiuta,T.M.,Choudhury,A.,Ferrer,H�sken,S.M.C.,Kura,Y.,Kusakabe,K.,Madzudzo,E.,Maetala,R.,Naved,Schwarz,Kantor,P.
Publisher : WorldFish
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Transforming aquatic agricultural systems towards gender equality by Weeratunge,N.,Chiuta,T.M.,Choudhury,A.,Ferrer,H�sken,S.M.C.,Kura,Y.,Kusakabe,K.,Madzudzo,E.,Maetala,R.,Naved,Schwarz,Kantor,P. Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : ESIC
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788411703567

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Technologies, multimodality and media culture for gender equality. Advancing in digital transformation of education by Anonim Pdf

Author : Yoshie Kobayashi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135936334

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A Path Toward Gender Equality by Yoshie Kobayashi Pdf

The first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, this volume focuses on the activities and roles of the Women's Bureau of the Ministry of Labor in post-World War II Japan. While state feminism theory possesses a strong capability to examine state-society relationships in terms of feminist policymaking, it tends to neglect a state's

Author : Janet C. Gornick,Marcia K. Meyers
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789604870

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Gender Equality by Janet C. Gornick,Marcia K. Meyers Pdf

In the labor market and workplace, anti-discrimination rules, affirmative action policies, and pay equity procedures exercise a direct effect on gender relations. But what can be done to influence the ways that men and women allocate tasks and responsibilities at home? In Gender Equality, Volume VI in the Real Utopias series, social scientists Janet C. Gornick and Marcia K. Meyers propose a set of policies-paid family leave provisions, working time regulations, and early childhood education and care-designed to foster more egalitarian family divisions of labor by strengthening men's ties at home and women's attachment to paid work. Their policy proposal is followed by a series of commentaries-both critical and supportive-from a group of distinguished scholars, and a concluding essay in which Gornick and Meyers respond to a debate that is a timely and valuable contribution to egalitarian politics.

Author : Robert Belton
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780700619535

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The Crusade for Equality in the Workplace by Robert Belton Pdf

On March 8, 1971, the Supreme Court of the United States decided a case, Griggs v. Duke Power Co., brought by thirteen African American employees who worked as common laborers and janitors at one of Duke Power’s facilities. The decision, in plaintiffs’ favor, marked a profound and enduring challenge to the dominance of white males in the workplace. In this book, Robert Belton, who represented the plaintiffs for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and argued the case in the lower courts, gives a firsthand account of legal history in the making—and a behind-the-scenes look at the highly complex process of putting civil rights law to work. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 eliminated much blatant discrimination, but after its enactment and before Griggs, businesses held the view that a commitment to equality required only eliminating policies and practices that were intentionally discriminatory—the "disparate treatment" test. In Griggs v. Duke Power Co., the Supreme Court ruled that a "disparate impact" test could also apply—that the 1964 Civil Rights Act extended to practices with a discriminatory effect. In tracing the impact of the Griggs ruling on employment practices, this book documents the birth, maturation, death, and rebirth of the disparate impact theory, including its erosion by later Supreme Court decisions and its restoration by congressional action in the Civil Rights Act of 1991. Belton conducts us through this historic case from the original lawsuit to the Supreme Court decision in Griggs and beyond as he traces the post-Griggs developments in the lower courts, the Supreme Court, and Congress; he provides informed insights into both litigators' and judges' perspectives and decision-making. His work situates the case in its legal, social, and historical contexts and explores the relationship between public and private enforcement of the law, with a focus on the Legal Defense Fund’s litigation campaign against employment discrimination. A detailed examination of the development of legal principles under Title VII, this book tells the story of this seminal decision on equal employment law and offers an unprecedented close-up view of personal conviction, legal strategy, and historical forces combining to effect dramatic social change.

Author : Timur Kuran
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674707583

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Private Truths, Public Lies by Timur Kuran Pdf

Preface Living a Lie The Significance of Preference Falsification Private and Public Preferences Private Opinion, Public Opinion The Dynamics of Public Opinion Institutional Sources of Preference Falsification Inhibiting Change Collective Conservatism The Obstinacy of Communism The Ominous Perseverance of the Caste System The Unwanted Spread of Affirmative Action Distorting Knowledge Public Discourse and Private Knowledge The Unthinkable and the Unthought The Caste Ethic of Submission The Blind Spots of Communism The Unfading Specter of White Racism Generating Surprise Unforeseen Political Revolutions The Fall of Communism and Other Sudden Overturns The Hidden Complexities of Social Evolution From Slavery to Affirmative Action Preference Falsification and Social Analysis Notes Index.

Author : R. Shep Melnick
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780815732402

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The Transformation of Title IX by R. Shep Melnick Pdf

One civil rights-era law has reshaped American society—and contributed to the country's ongoing culture wars Few laws have had such far-reaching impact as Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Intended to give girls and women greater access to sports programs and other courses of study in schools and colleges, the law has since been used by judges and agencies to expand a wide range of antidiscrimination policies—most recently the Obama administration’s 2016 mandates on sexual harassment and transgender rights. In this comprehensive review of how Title IX has been implemented, Boston College political science professor R. Shep Melnick analyzes how interpretations of "equal educational opportunity" have changed over the years. In terms accessible to non-lawyers, Melnick examines how Title IX has become a central part of legal and political campaigns to correct gender stereotypes, not only in academic settings but in society at large. Title IX thus has become a major factor in America's culture wars—and almost certainly will remain so for years to come.