This week, referring to his favorite object, my iPhone, my two and a half year old proclaimed: “I’m going to charge it like a man.” What? Who taught him the phrase “like a man”? What does he think it means? I asked him these questions, and he just beamed at…
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What does discrimination on the basis of "sex" mean under Title VII? When the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, it prohibited discrimination based on a lot of really big, important categories---such as race, national origin, religion, and sex. Back then, everybody knew what sex discrimination meant—it meant discrimination…
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In 1964, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act outlawed major forms of discrimination, including discrimination based on race, national origin, religion, and sex. At the time, sex discrimination meant discrimination against women. Today, however, courts are grappling with the boundaries of sex discrimination…
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