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Comment: Queer Womyn Of Color And Employment Discrimination Law In Wisconsin - Does Wisconsin Law Do Enough To Lift Anxiety?, Amber Lara
Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review
America's current leadership appears to actively seek out ways to isolate and oppress those who do not identify as cis-gender white heterosexual males. The purpose of this comment is to help readers understand the issues queer womyn of color face interacting with society on a daily basis. This comment will outline the harmful expectations of assimilation and how failure to assimilate may make these womyn targets in their work environments. This comment will also compare the handling of employment discrimination under Title VII and Wisconsin law and determine whether Wisconsin law in practice actually affords queer womyn of color more …
Essay: Understanding Employment Discrimination Litigation In China Through The Notion Of "Rights Apathy", Sheera Chan, Mimi Zou
Essay: Understanding Employment Discrimination Litigation In China Through The Notion Of "Rights Apathy", Sheera Chan, Mimi Zou
Marquette Benefits and Social Welfare Law Review
The psycho-legal concept of “rights apathy” is developed in
this Essay as an underlying factor of the very low rate of
incidence of workplace discrimination lawsuits filed in China,
despite an increasingly elaborate legal framework “on paper”
and workers’ rising awareness of their legal rights under
anti-discrimination laws. “Rights apathy” is underpinned by the
notions of “frustration” and “learned helplessness,” depicting the
indifference of workers in exercising their legal rights before a
tribunal or court. A number of institutional problems, namely
defects in existing anti-discrimination provisions, judicial
practices, and contradictions in other laws, policies, and
practices, can contribute to the …