Equality on trial : gender and rights in the modern American workplace /

"In 1964, as part of its landmark Civil Rights Act, Congress outlawed workplace discrimination on the basis of such personal attributes as sex, race, and religion. This provision, known as Title VII, laid a new legal foundation for women's rights at work. Though President Kennedy and other...

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Main Author: Turk, Katherine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016
Series:Politics and culture in modern America
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Table of Contents:
  • Notions of sex equality
  • Defining sex discrimination
  • Class and class action
  • Feminism and workplace fairness
  • Reevaluating women's work
  • Sex equality and the service sector
  • A man's world, but only for some
  • Opting out or buying in
  • Illusions of sex equality