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Social Framework Studies Such As “Women Don’T Ask” And “It Does Hurt To Ask” Show Us The Next Step Toward Achieving Gender Equality—Eliminating The Long Term Effects Of Implicit Bias—But Are Not Likely To Get Cases Past Summary Judgment, Andrea Doneff Aug 2013

Social Framework Studies Such As “Women Don’T Ask” And “It Does Hurt To Ask” Show Us The Next Step Toward Achieving Gender Equality—Eliminating The Long Term Effects Of Implicit Bias—But Are Not Likely To Get Cases Past Summary Judgment, Andrea Doneff

Andrea Doneff

Social Framework evidence has been used for many years to explain how statements or actions indicate discriminatory motive. For example, social framework evidence helps us understand how statements that a woman should dress more femininely or attend charm school near the time of a decision not to offer her partnership demonstrate stereotyped behavior and therefore indicate discriminatory motives for the employment decision. Recent social framework studies show that women often do not negotiate on their own behalf and, when they do, they are perceived negatively by both men and women. Complementary studies show that negative perceptions play out over the …


The Family Responsibilities Convention Reconsidered: The Work-Family Intersection In International Law Thirty Years On, Lee Adams Aug 2013

The Family Responsibilities Convention Reconsidered: The Work-Family Intersection In International Law Thirty Years On, Lee Adams

Lee Adams

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention, 1981, No. 156 coming into force. Family responsibilities in the context of paid work and its implications for gender equality have been the subject of international regulation most specifically in ILO 156, although it remains a marginalized convention. Since then, the interaction of work and family and the conflict between them have exploded as a subject of scholarly importance. This article examines ILO 156 in the context of chronological development of other major international legal instruments which address the intersection of work and …


Daddy Warriors: The Battle To Equalize Paternity Leave In The United States By Breaking Gender Stereotypes; A Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Analysis, Abraham Z. Melamed Jul 2013

Daddy Warriors: The Battle To Equalize Paternity Leave In The United States By Breaking Gender Stereotypes; A Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Analysis, Abraham Z. Melamed

Abraham Z Melamed

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