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Wage Discrimination And Job Segregation: The Survival Of A Theory, Ruth G. Blumrosen
Wage Discrimination And Job Segregation: The Survival Of A Theory, Ruth G. Blumrosen
University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
My earlier article in this journal, Wage Discrimination, Job Segregation, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, advanced the theory that the same discriminatory factors which lead to job segregation are also likely to be responsible for wage differentials between segregated jobs. The discriminatorily depressed wage rate of the segregated job is therefore one of the "adverse effects" under Griggs v. Duke Power Co. of job segregation. In order to establish a prima facie case of wage discrimination in a Title VII action, plaintiffs must show the fact of job segregation - that the jobs were …