Gillian Thomas

Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work

Sprecher: Benson, Rosemary

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tantor
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 736 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798200333554
• Artikelnr.: 61545376

Autorenporträt

GILLIAN THOMAS is a Senior Staff Attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's (ACLU) Women's Rights Project. She previously litigated sex discrimination cases at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Legal Momentum (formerly NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund). Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and Slate, and she has been interviewed by NPR and The Wall Street Journal, among others. She lives in Brooklyn and is the author of Because of Sex.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Women and Children Last-Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corporation (1971)
2 Breaking Through the Thin Blue Line-Dothard v. Rawlinson (1977)
3 Live Long(er) and Prosper-City of Los Angeles Department of Water and
Power v. Manhart (1978)
4 A Hostile Environment-Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson (1986)
5 "A Floor, Not a Ceiling"-California Federal Savings & Loan Association
v. Guerra (1987)
6 Making "Lady Partner"-Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (1989)
7 Potentially Pregnant-International Union, United Auto Workers of America
v. Johnson Controls, Inc. (1991)
8 Taking It All the Way to "Sandra Fucking Day O'Connor"-Harris v. Forklift
Systems, Inc. (1993)
9 Don't Shoot the Messenger-Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Company
v. White (2006)
10 "Everyone Deserves a Safe Delivery"-Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc.
(2015)
Epilogue
Notes
Index