Pregnancy Discrimination and the American Worker - Michelle D. Deardorff, James G. Dahl

Pregnancy Discrimination and the American Worker

Buch | Hardcover
238 Seiten
2015 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-34304-8 (ISBN)
106,95 inkl. MwSt
This book explores how the federal courts have addressed the two primary federal statutory protections found in the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act and how law mediates conflict between workplace expectations and the realities of pregnancy. While pregnancy discrimination has been litigated under both, these laws establish different forms of equality. Formal equality requires equal treatment of pregnant women in the workplace, and substantive equality requires the worker's needs to be accommodated by the employer. Drawing from a unique database of 1,112 cases, Deardorff and Dahl discuss how courts have addressed pregnancy through these two different approaches to equality. The authors explore the implications for gender equality and the evolution of how pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions in employment can be addressed by employers.

Michelle D. Deardorff is Professor and Department Head of Political Science and Public Service at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA. She has coauthored a two-volume constitutional law set, Constitutional Law in Contemporary America (2010), and is on the author team of American Democracy Now, fourth edition (2012). James G. Dahl is Associate Dean in the Office of Undergraduate Affairs, College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He had previously spent 22 years at Millikin University, USA; where he served on the faculty in various administrative roles and Dean of the Tabor School of Business.

1. Introduction
2. A History of Pregnancy and the Workplace
3. Competing Definitions of Equality: Formal and Substantive Equality
4. Litigating Pregnancy Discrimination in the Federal Courts
5. Identifying Illicit Pregnancy Discrimination Under the PDA
6. Pregnancy as a Disability? The American Disabilities Act and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act
7. Beyond Pregnancy—Title VII and the Protection of Related Medical Conditions of Pregnancy
8. Lessons Learned and Emerging Issues

Zusatzinfo XIII, 238 p.
Verlagsort Basingstoke
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Arbeits- / Sozialrecht Arbeitsrecht
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-137-34304-4 / 1137343044
ISBN-13 978-1-137-34304-8 / 9781137343048
Zustand Neuware
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