WMS 187 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lilly Ledbetter, Employment Discrimination, Symbolic Power
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Hooters has been allowed to continue with their policy that they can hire only cis women with large breasts for their brand. Abercrombie lost the case in which they tried to defend their walking billboard racist/body shaming ads. But they are still discriminative in practice. Reason why trump team didn"t ask kanye to perform at. Inauguration is they wanted a traditional american act . Law mandates you need to file in 180 days if you have a labor/wage complaint. Hired at a lower wage than men in her position. Stated they examined the pattern and that the pattern would not exist without discrimination. Scotus ruled against the labor class action suit, limiting the chances of other similar cases" success. Failing to hire an applicant because they are trans is against the law. Firing an employee who is planning on transitioning is against the law. Denying a promotion on the basis of sexual identity.
