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Gender Equality In Reconciling Work And Childcare In South Korea, Kook Hee Lee Mar 2009

Gender Equality In Reconciling Work And Childcare In South Korea, Kook Hee Lee

Cornell Law School Inter-University Graduate Student Conference Papers

This paper presents an ideal legislative model for South Korea to realize gender equality in reconciling work and childcare. The comparative study on the U.S. and German system is the basis for the legislative model. This paper selects the U.S. and German systems as a comparison group because they are representing the equal treatment approach and special treatment approach in the feminist legal theory. The current system in South Korea fails to realize gender equality because it provides maternity leave exclusive to women to limit women’s right to work and lacks financial support for parental leave. Maternity leave limits women’s …


Artfully Discriminating: How Hall V. Nalco Co. Applies Title Vii To Adverse Employment Actions Based On Assisted Reproduction Technologies, Patrick F. Madden Jan 2009

Artfully Discriminating: How Hall V. Nalco Co. Applies Title Vii To Adverse Employment Actions Based On Assisted Reproduction Technologies, Patrick F. Madden

Patrick F. Madden

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From Queen Bees And Wannabes To Worker Bees: Why Gender Considerations Should Inform The Emerging Law Of Workplace Bullying, Kerri Lynn Stone Jan 2009

From Queen Bees And Wannabes To Worker Bees: Why Gender Considerations Should Inform The Emerging Law Of Workplace Bullying, Kerri Lynn Stone

Faculty Publications

This Article submits that the documented phenomenon of workplace bullying operates to stymie the retention and advancement of women in the workplace Research documented in books like Queen Bees and Wannabes shows that as early as the schoolyard, males and females tend to socialize differently, engage in and resolve conflict with peers differently, and absorb bullying behavior differently. Girls often believe or are taught to believe that direct conflict or confrontation is unpalatable and tend to employ more passive aggressive means of engagement with foes. They often internalize and repress feelings that boys are more likely to express. Viewing the …


Foreword, Margaret E. Johnson Jan 2009

Foreword, Margaret E. Johnson

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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