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Accommodating The Female Body: A Disability Paradigm Of Sex Discriminatio, Jessica L. Roberts Jan 2008

Accommodating The Female Body: A Disability Paradigm Of Sex Discriminatio, Jessica L. Roberts

University of Colorado Law Review

This Article presents a novel approach for understanding sex discrimination in the workplace by integrating three distinct areas of scholarship: disability studies, employment law, and architectural design. Borrowing from disabilities studies, I argue that the built environment serves as a situs of sex discrimination. In the first Part, I explain how the concept of disability has progressed from a problem located within the body of an individual with a disability to the failings of the built environment in which that person functions. Using this paradigm, in the next Part, I reframe workplaces constructed for male workers as instruments of sex …


Caring Enough: Sex Roles, Work And Taxing Women, Amy L. Wax Jan 1999

Caring Enough: Sex Roles, Work And Taxing Women, Amy L. Wax

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


From Madonna To Proletariat: Constructing A New Ideology Of Motherhood In Welfare Discourse, Tonya L. Brito Jan 1999

From Madonna To Proletariat: Constructing A New Ideology Of Motherhood In Welfare Discourse, Tonya L. Brito

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


And Promises To Keep: The Future In Employment Discrimination, Julia C. Lamber Jul 1993

And Promises To Keep: The Future In Employment Discrimination, Julia C. Lamber

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.