Legal reasearch, Lexis

Legal reasearch, Lexis

Employment discrimination is a much-discussed topic among feminists; not only is it highly relevant to the lives of individual women, but legislation seeking to remedy sex discrimination in employment can also shed light on the ways that the law can transform sexist ideology—or at least mitigate the actual impact of those ideologies on women. “Sex stereotyping” jurisprudence, first articulated by the Supreme Court in Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins in 1989, is a legal concept with the potential to combat sexism in the workplace more effectively that previous applications of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an important ...