Kerri Lynn Stone, "Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity" (Cambridge UP, 2022)
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The Importance of Justification in Employment Discrimination
Law presupposes very two-dimensional ways of how people act predictors of how people will act and they don't necessarily line up with Or comport with reality. The same actor inference that's been around in the law forever And it is safe but buttable. We start off with a rebuttable presumption that it was not because of their sex It could also be their skin color or religion whenever they're alleged to be discriminating on the basis of discrimination. That really only makes sense if you have a very cartoonish view of people, he says.
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