Monday, January 11, 2016

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



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ISBN-13:
9781466878976

Publisher:

Press-Martin

Date of publication:
08/03/2016

sold:
Macmillan

Format:
PDF

Sales rank:
173799

File size:
2 MB


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Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and revolutionized American life # 8217; s working women. Title VII of the law, prohibit discrimination # 8220 ;. Because sex # 8221; But this simple phrase Useless # 8217; t mean much until ordinary women have not started to use the law to achieve justice in the workplace # 8212, and some have taken their fight to the Supreme Court. They included Ida Phillips, refused to work the assembly line, because she was the child of preschool age; Kim Rawlinson, who fought to become the jailer # 8212; # 8220; Man # 8217, S job # 8221 ;; Mechelle Vinson, who brought to the court for sexual abuse before # 8220; sexual harassment # 8221; even had a name; Anne Hopkins, denies cooperation on the big eight accounting firms, because the man in charge thought that she needed to "charm school course for # 8221 ;; and, more recently, Peggy Young, trucker UPS, forced to take unpaid leave during pregnancy, she asked for a temporary reprieve from the heavy lifting.

These unsung heroines # 8217; victory, and the other women profiled in Gillian Thomas because of sex, dismantled # 8220; Mad Men # 8221; a world where women could only hope to play a supporting role; where sexual harassment # 8220, simply as things stand # 8221 ;; and where the pregnancy meant to get a pink slip.

Through first-person accounts and vivid story, because of sex he tells the story of how one law, our highest court, and a few tenacious women changed the American workplace forever.


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