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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
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 …
Health Care, Title Vi, And Racism’S New Normal, Dayna B. Matthew
Health Care, Title Vi, And Racism’S New Normal, Dayna B. Matthew
Dayna B Matthew
HEALTH CARE, TITLE VI, AND RACISM’S NEW NORMAL Dayna Bowen Matthew ABSTRACT An estimated 84,570 minority patients die annually due to health care disparities that result from the unconscious racism that pervades American health care. Over a decade ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reviewed the egregious inequalities that black and brown patients suffer when they seek medical care for heart disease, diabetes, cancer, asthma, pain, strokes and virtually every disease, illness or malady. The IOM report identified physician stereotypes, bias, and prejudice as a possible reason for these disparities, but could not explain exactly why biases caused minority patients …
Savagery In The Subways: The First Amendment, Anti-Muslim Ads And The Efficacy Of Counterspeech, Engy Abdelkader
Savagery In The Subways: The First Amendment, Anti-Muslim Ads And The Efficacy Of Counterspeech, Engy Abdelkader
Engy Abdelkader
From San Francisco to Washington, D.C. to Detroit to Chicago to New York, anti-Muslim hate placards have recently appeared on government-owned transit systems in cities around the country. Anti-Muslim hate groups designed, funded and placed the inflammatory advertisements, representing a well-orchestrated campaign to demean and attack the minority Muslim community. The ads have culminated in hate crime charges in the subway pushing death of an immigrant of South Asian descent, diverse manifestations of counter official and private speech and First Amendment litigation in at least three jurisdictions where well-meaning transit officials attempted to prevent the ads’ placement. Interdisciplinary in its …