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Some Modest Proposals For Challenging Established Dress Code Jurisprudence, Jennifer L. Levi Jan 2007

Some Modest Proposals For Challenging Established Dress Code Jurisprudence, Jennifer L. Levi

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Historically, most courts have sustained employer-imposed, gender-based dress codes. Two well-established exceptions to the rule exist for dress codes that either (1) objectify or sexualize women or (2) allow for flexibility of standards for male employees' appearance but require stricter rules for women. A third, still-evolving exception has recently developed regarding challenges to dress codes by transgender litigants. Despite this recent progress, however, the classical gender-based dress code -- requiring women to conform to feminine stereotypes and men to conform to masculine stereotypes -- has, up to the present, been sustained by a majority of the courts time and again. …


Gender And Justice: Parity And The United States Supreme Court, Paula A. Monopoli Jan 2007

Gender And Justice: Parity And The United States Supreme Court, Paula A. Monopoli

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There is a deep concern among many American women that only one woman remains on the United States Supreme Court. When Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was sworn in on September 25, 1981, most people never imagined that twenty-five years later there would still be only one woman on the Court. It appears that it will be many more years before there is a critical mass of women sitting on the high court. Given its central role, the Court should better represent the gender balance in American society. In a number of other countries, voluntary or involuntary parity provisions have been …


Accepting The Court's Invitation, Martha M. Ertman Jan 2007

Accepting The Court's Invitation, Martha M. Ertman

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