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Supreme Court & Job Discrimination

Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it is illegal to discriminate against employees based on race, color, national origin, sex, or religion. In the three and a half decades since, there have been many decisions by the Supreme Court which have helped reinforce the protection of individuals against employment discrimination. The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 was another important piece of legislation protecting individuals against employment discrimination. This analysis will look at some of the decisions of the Supreme Court over the past three decades, decisions which appear to be aimed at further diminishing employment and workplace discrimination. The main focus of the analysis will revolve around efforts aimed at reducing employment and workplace discrimination against women and minorities. A conclusion will address the impact of recent efforts to dissolve Affirmative Action as a means of redressing employment and workplace discrimination against women and minorities.

Since the 1970s, the Supreme Court has rendered decisions which appear to diminish the potential for employment and workplace discrimination against women and minorities. In Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corporation, the Supreme Court decided in favor of Mrs. Ida Phillips, a women who alleged she was denied employment because of her sex (1971, 2). Mrs. Phillips contended that she was not hired by Martin Marietta because she was a mother with pre-school-age children, even though the firm routinely hired men with pre-school-age children. The Court decides that employment opportunity needs to be limited by criteria that are neutral as to the sex of an applicant where performance characteristics are involved “Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an employer may not, in the absence of business necessity, refuse to hire women with pre-school-age children while hiring men with such children” (Phillips v. Martin, 1971, 1).

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