Developments in the Law: Employment Discrimination and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Harvard Law Review , Vol. 84, No. 5 (Mar. , 1971), pp. 1109-1316 This booked is written by Harvard Law. The Review discuss what the Civil Rights Act of 1964 entails and discuss and why Title VII was a big development. A development to Civil Rights Act of 1964. They used cases to develop the Title VII. They used both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Quantitative methods were things such as employment statics to see how many of each race where working.
The review talks about how Title VII alone was aimed at the economic causes of black oppression. When aiming for that it broadens to help with other groups, defined in terms of race, religion, or national origin. All provided were powerful weapon for equality in the job market. The Act included sex discrimination applicable to economic oppression of females. The review gives a better understanding of Title VII and what the cause and effect was on our economy and world today. Sex Discrimination in Employment: An Attempt to Interpret Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Duke Law Journal , Vol. 1968, No. 4 (Aug. , 1968), pp. 671-72.
The article attempts to interpret Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964 in its regards to sex discrimination. Article describes that sex discrimination is not justified by a “bona fide occupational qualification. ” The article also suggest that lower federal courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have frequently reached conflicting conclusions. The article compares the conclusions with the Act’s legislative history and attempts to construct an analytical framework within which the meaning of the sex discrimination ban may be determined. The article gives a detailed description on how sex discrimination is in Title VII.
Women Activists, Southern Conservatives, and the Prohibition of Sex Discrimination in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Carl M. Brauer. The Journal of Southern History , Vol. 49, No. 1 (Feb. , 1983), pp. 37-56. This article is written by Carl Brauer. Carl Brauer is a researcher for the Institute of Politics, Kennedy school of Government, Harvard University. He writes this articles to tell about more of what people thought about the act and why they put the act into place. He writes that Women rights were not taken seriously at that time and the sex discrimination originally tended to be lightly regarded, even after it became law.
The author uses The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and Title VII to help his article. He writes that “Title VII to administer the law against employment discrimination initially treated the ban on sex discrimination as something of a joke. ” He used data to prove his points. One example was that after the first two years of enforcement of the act, over 425 of all complaints of sexual discrimination was lodged. This article really is a detailed discrimination of how the Women’s rights movement came in to play and the role of sex discrimination in Title VII.
