Sex Discrimination

Author : Margaret Thornton
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781921666773

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Sex Discrimination in Uncertain Times by Margaret Thornton Pdf

This collection of essays arose from a conference held to mark the silver anniversary of the Australian Sex Discrimination Act (1984). The collection has two aims: first; to honour the contributions of both the spirited individuals who valiantly fought for the enactment of the legislation against the odds, and those who championed the new law once it was passed; secondly, to present a stock-take of the Act within the changed socio-political environment of the 21st century. The contributors present clear-eyed appraisals of the legislation, in addition to considering new forms of legal regulation, such as Equality Act, and the significance of a Human Rights Act. The introduction of a proactive model, which would impose positive duties on organisations, is explored as an alternative to the existing individual complaint-based model of legislation. The contributors also pay attention to the international human rights framework, particularly the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. The essays are illuminated by recourse to a rich vein of historical and contemporary literature. Regard is also paid to the comparative experience of other jurisdictions, particularly the UK and Canada.

Author : INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822373445

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Color of Violence by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence Pdf

The editors and contributors to Color of Violence ask: What would it take to end violence against women of color? Presenting the fierce and vital writing of organizers, lawyers, scholars, poets, and policy makers, Color of Violence radically repositions the antiviolence movement by putting women of color at its center. The contributors shift the focus from domestic violence and sexual assault and map innovative strategies of movement building and resistance used by women of color around the world. The volume's thirty pieces—which include poems, short essays, position papers, letters, and personal reflections—cover violence against women of color in its myriad forms, manifestations, and settings, while identifying the links between gender, militarism, reproductive and economic violence, prisons and policing, colonialism, and war. At a time of heightened state surveillance and repression of people of color, Color of Violence is an essential intervention. Contributors. Dena Al-Adeeb, Patricia Allard, Lina Baroudi, Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA), Critical Resistance, Sarah Deer, Eman Desouky, Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo, Dana Erekat, Nirmala Erevelles, Sylvanna Falcón, Rosa Linda Fregoso, Emi Koyama, Elizabeth "Betita" Martínez, maina minahal, Nadine Naber, Stormy Ogden, Julia Chinyere Oparah, Beth Richie, Andrea J. Ritchie, Dorothy Roberts, Loretta J. Ross, s.r., Puneet Kaur Chawla Sahota, Renee Saucedo, Sista II Sista, Aishah Simmons, Andrea Smith, Neferti Tadiar, TransJustice, Haunani-Kay Trask, Traci C. West, Janelle White

Author : Catharine A. MacKinnon,Professor Catharine A MacKinnon
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1979-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0300022999

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Sexual Harassment of Working Women by Catharine A. MacKinnon,Professor Catharine A MacKinnon Pdf

A comprehensive legal theory is needed to prevent the persistence of sexual harassment. Although requiring sexual favors as a quid pro quo for job retention or advancement clearly is unjust, the task of translating that obvious statement into legal theory is difficult. To do so, one must define sexual harassment and decide what the law's role in addressing harassment claims should be. In Sexual Harassment of Working Women,' Catharine Mac-Kinnon attempts all of this and more. In making a strong case that sexual harassment is sex discrimination and that a legal remedy should be available for it, the book proposes a new standard for evaluating all practices claimed to be discriminatory on the basis of sex. Although MacKinnon's "inequality" theory is flawed and its implications are not considered sufficiently, her formulation of it makes the book a significant contribution to the literature of sex discrimination. MacKinnon calls upon the law to eliminate not only sex dis- crimination but also most instances of sexism from society. She uses traditional theories in an admittedly strident manner, and relies upon both traditional and radical-feminist sources. The results of her effort are mixed. The book is at times fresh and challenging, at times needlessly provocative. -- https://www.jstor.org (Sep. 30, 2016).

Author : Dominique Clément
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774827515

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Equality Deferred by Dominique Clément Pdf

In Equality Deferred, Dominique Clément traces the history of sex discrimination in Canadian law and the origins of human rights legislation. Focusing on British Columbia - the first jurisdiction to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex - he documents a variety of absurd, almost unbelievable, acts of discrimination. Drawing on previously undisclosed human rights commission records, Clément explores the rise and fall of what was once the country's most progressive human rights legal regime and reveals how political divisions and social movements shaped the human rights state. This book is not only a testament to the revolutionary impact of human rights on Canadian law but also a reminder that it takes more than laws to effect transformative social change.

Author : Elizabeth Kaufer Busch,William E. Thro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317425113

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Title IX by Elizabeth Kaufer Busch,William E. Thro Pdf

This book examines the history and evolution of Title IX, a landmark 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination at educational institutions receiving federal funding. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and William Thro illuminate the ways in which the interpretation and implementation of Title IX have been transformed over time to extend far beyond the law's relatively narrow statutory text. The analysis considers the impact of Title IX on athletics, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and, for a time, transgender discrimination. Combining legal and cultural perspectives and supported by primary documents, Title IX: The Transformation of Sex Discrimination in Education offers a balanced and insightful narrative of interest to anyone studying the history of sex discrimination, educational policy, and the law in the contemporary United States.

Author : James Gruber,Phoebe Morgan
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1555536387

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In the Company of Men by James Gruber,Phoebe Morgan Pdf

Despite over twenty years of discussion and study, sexual harassment remains a significant problem in the workplace. Current research focusing on organizational policy and women's career development often ignores the reality of male dominance, prevalent in areas such as the military, the police, and firefighting-occupations that see not only more frequent but also more severe harassment, even sexual assault. Meanwhile, new evidence points to the fact that men are largely responsible not only for the harassment of women but for most harassment of other men as well. This landmark collection of original essays investigates the links between male dominance and sexual harassment in light of new research and more complex understandings of masculinity. Treated not merely as a matter of worker sex ratios but as an inherent element of workplace culture, male dominance is observed from a variety of quantitative and qualitative approaches ranging from criminology and sociology to psychology and gender studies. Integrating both men's and women's viewpoints, research across occupational groups, and studies from both the United States and Europe, the chapters provide an invaluable international perspective into two inextricably intertwined problems rooted in cultural constructions of gender and institutional roles and processes.

Author : William F. Pepper,Florynce Kennedy
Publisher : MICHIE
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B4184738

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Sex Discrimination in Employment by William F. Pepper,Florynce Kennedy Pdf

This treatise discusses in detail the types of sex discrimination, procedures for successful litigation, and the various remedies available to employees who have been discriminated against.

Author : Peggy J. Parks
Publisher : Referencepoint Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Sex discrimination against men
ISBN : 168282389X

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Sex Discrimination by Peggy J. Parks Pdf

Sex discrimination (also known as gender discrimination) involves treating employees unequally and/or unfavorably because of their gender. Although men as well as women may encounter sex discrimination, it affects women far more often than men. Sex Discrimination examines what this discrimination entails, how it is manifested, how widespread it is, how it affects real people, and efforts to address this discrimination.

Author : Dominique Clément
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Equality before the law
ISBN : 0774827491

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Equality Deferred by Dominique Clément Pdf

British Columbia was the first jurisdiction in Canada to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. It was also at the forefront of the women's movement, which produced the country's first rape crisis centres, first feminist newspaper, and first battered women's shelters. Yet as recently as 1984 a woman could be dismissed from her job as a waitress for complaining about sexual harassment. In Equality Deferred, Dominique Clément traces the history of human rights law in Canada, with a focus on sex discrimination in British Columbia - beginning with the province's first equal pay legislation in 1953 and ending in 1984 with the collapse of the country's most progressive human rights legal regime. For an entire generation, the province's two dominant political parties fought to impose their respective vision of human rights law. Working from the previously undisclosed records of British Columbia's human rights commission, Clément documents a history of cases that dealt with absurd, almost unbelievable, acts of discrimination. Clément also explores British Columbia's turbulent political history to reveal how governments inhibit the application of their own laws, and how it falls to social movements to create, promote, and enforce these laws. This book is a testament to the revolutionary impact of human rights on Canadian law but also a reminder that it takes more than laws to effect transformative social change.

Author : Timothy Macklem
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521534151

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Beyond Comparison by Timothy Macklem Pdf

In Beyond Comparison: Sex and Discrimination Timothy Macklem addresses foundational issues in the long-running debate in legal, political and social theory about the nature of gender discrimination. He takes the highly original and controversial view that the heart of discrimination lies not in the unfavorable comparisons with the treatment and opportunities that men enjoy but rather in a denial of resources and opportunities that women need to lead successful and meaningful lives as women. Therefore, to understand what women need we must first understand what it is to be a woman. By displaying an impressive command of the feminist literature as well as intellectual rigor, this work promises to be a milestone in the debate about gender equality and will interest students and professionals in the areas of legal theory and gender studies.

Author : Deborah L. RHODE,Deborah L Rhode
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674042674

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Justice and Gender by Deborah L. RHODE,Deborah L Rhode Pdf

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive investigation of gender and the law in the United States. Deborah Rhode describes legal developments over the last two centuries against a background of historical and sociological changes in women's activities and attitudes toward these new developments. She shows the way cultural perceptions of gender influence and in turn are influenced by legal constructions, and what this complicated interaction implies about the possibility-or impossibility-of using law as a tool of social change. Table of Contents: Introduction Part One: Historical Frameworks 1. Natural Rights and Natural Roles Domesticity as Destiny The Emergence of a Feminist Movement Nineteenth-Century Legal Ideology: Separate and Unequal 2. The Fragmentation of Feminism and the Legalization of Difference The Postsuffrage Women's Movement Separate Spheres and Legal Thought Part Two: Equal Rights in Retrospect 3. Feminist Challenges and Legal Responses The Growth of the Contemporary Women's Movement Governmental Rejoinders Liberalism and Liberation 4. The Equal Rights Campaign Instrumental Claims Symbolic Underpinnings Political Strategies Requiems and Revivals 5. The Evolution of Discrimination Doctrine The Search for Standards Separate Spheres Revisited: Bona Fide Occupational Qualifications Definitions of Difference Part Three: Contemporary Issues 6. False Dichotomies Benign and Invidious Discrimination in Welfare Policy: Elderly Women and Social Security Special Treatment or Equal Treatment: Pregnancy, Maternal, and Caretaking Policy Public and Private: Social Welfare and Childcare Policies 7. Competing Perspectives on Family Policy Form and Substance: The Marital-Nonmarital Divide Lesbian-Gay Rights and Social Wrongs Equality and Equity in Divorce Reform Text and Subtext in Custody Adjudication 8. Equality in Form and Equality in Fact: Women and Work Occupational Inequality The Legal Response Employment Policy and Structural Change 9. Reproductive Freedom The Historical Legacy Abortion Adolescent Pregnancy Reproductive Technology 10. Sex and Violence Sexual Harassment Domestic Violence Rape Prostitution Pornography 11. Association and Assimilation Private Clubs and Public Values Education Athletics Different But Equal Conclusion: Principles and Priorities Differences over Difference Differences over Sameness Theory about Theory Legal Frameworks Notes Index Reviews of this book: Rhode's work is impressive in its scholarship and its range...a compelling account. --Josephine Shaw, International and Comparative Law Quarterly Reviews of this book: The definitive treatment of the American legal system's struggle to deal with issues pertaining to gender...The strength of Rhode's analysis, however, is not its historical aspect but its probing view of modern gender issues...The focus is always on the deeper forces that have led to gender disadvantage...There is much to be learned from reading this volume. --Victoria J. Dodd, Bimonthly Review of Law Books Reviews of this book: A comprensive journey through the history of law and gender...The book is important in a number of ways...[It] paints in stark, irrefutable colors the irrational prejudices that have served to justify legal determinations limiting equality...[I]t has the audacity to ask the law to turn on itself and work more justly. --Sheila James Kuehl, California Lawyer Reviews of this book: Encyclopedic.. . Thorough, carefully nuanced ... [Rhode] gives all sides their fair due on every issue she takes up... A valuable resource for many years to come. --Susan 0kin, Law and Social Inquiry Justice and Gender breaks the impasse created by legal and theoretical debates over 'sameness' and 'difference.' Deborah Rhode's brilliant analysis of gender and the law in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present argues persuasively for theories rooted in careful contextual analysis and for a legal emphasis on gender disadvantage rather than gender difference. This book offers a new vantage point from which to think about the role of law in building a just society. --Sarah M. Evans, University of Minnesota

Author : Joanna L. Grossman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107133365

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Nine to Five by Joanna L. Grossman Pdf

Rich in case studies, this collection of essays illustrates how gender continues to define every aspect of Americans' work experience.

Author : Arjun Prakash Aggarwal
Publisher : Lexis Law Publishing (Va)
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015033335061

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Sex Discrimination by Arjun Prakash Aggarwal Pdf

This text examines employment practices and policies that may constitute sex discrimination under Canadian law. It addresses the rights and obligations of both employers and employees as defined by federal and provincial human rights legislation, case law and collective agreements. Comparable trends in US law are also identified and discussed.

Author : Lawrence Solotoff,Henry S. Kramer
Publisher : Law Journal Press
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 1588520625

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Sex Discrimination and Sexual Harassment in the Work Place by Lawrence Solotoff,Henry S. Kramer Pdf

This book covers such topics as: the FAMLA; the development of sex discrimination and sexual harassment statutes; "glass ceiling" and "glass wall" issues in professional and academic settings.

Author : Claire Sherman Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Sex discrimination
ISBN : OCLC:743169395

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Sex Discrimination in a Nutshell by Claire Sherman Thomas Pdf