Pregnancy discrimination and the American worker / Michelle D. Deardorff and James G. Dahl.
2016
KF3467 .D43 2016
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Title
Pregnancy discrimination and the American worker / Michelle D. Deardorff and James G. Dahl.
ISBN
9781137533296 (electronic book)
1137533293 (electronic book)
9781137343048
1137343044
1137533293 (electronic book)
9781137343048
1137343044
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
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English
Description
1 online resource
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KF3467 .D43 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
344.7301/4133
Summary
"Deardorff and Dahl examine how the US courts have addressed pregnancy discrimination under federal statutory law. The historical, comparative, and federal and state legal contexts are analyzed in the competing conceptions of pregnancy and employment, exploring implications for gender equality and the treatment of pregnancy in employment"-- Provided by publisher.
"The percentage of women in the American labor force exceeds 57%, and many experience pregnancy during their working years. However, few analyses have explored how law mediates conflict between workplace expectations and the realities of pregnancy. This book explores how the federal courts have addressed the two primary federal statutory protections found in the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. While pregnancy discrimination has been litigated under both, these laws establish different forms of equality. Formal equality requires equal treatment of pregnant women in the workplace, and substantive equality requires the worker's needs to be accommodated by the employer. Drawing from a unique database of 1,112 cases, Deardorff and Dahl discuss how courts have addressed pregnancy through these two different approaches to equality. The authors explore the implications for gender equality and the evolution of how pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions in employment can be addressed by employers"-- Provided by publisher.
"The percentage of women in the American labor force exceeds 57%, and many experience pregnancy during their working years. However, few analyses have explored how law mediates conflict between workplace expectations and the realities of pregnancy. This book explores how the federal courts have addressed the two primary federal statutory protections found in the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. While pregnancy discrimination has been litigated under both, these laws establish different forms of equality. Formal equality requires equal treatment of pregnant women in the workplace, and substantive equality requires the worker's needs to be accommodated by the employer. Drawing from a unique database of 1,112 cases, Deardorff and Dahl discuss how courts have addressed pregnancy through these two different approaches to equality. The authors explore the implications for gender equality and the evolution of how pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions in employment can be addressed by employers"-- Provided by publisher.
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Dahl, James G., author.
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Table of Contents
A history of pregnancy and the workplace
Competing definitions of equality : formal and substantive equality
Litigating pregnancy discrimination in the federal courts
Identifying unlawful pregnancy discrimination under the PDA
Pregnancy as a disability? : the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Beyond pregnancy : Title VII and the protection of related medical conditions of pregnancy
Lessons learned and emerging issues.
Competing definitions of equality : formal and substantive equality
Litigating pregnancy discrimination in the federal courts
Identifying unlawful pregnancy discrimination under the PDA
Pregnancy as a disability? : the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Beyond pregnancy : Title VII and the protection of related medical conditions of pregnancy
Lessons learned and emerging issues.