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Either the courts would apply the law and Pike/Google would receive the punishment, or they wouldn't and the clear written intent of the law would have been sub
by zigzigzag 10y ago
Either the courts would apply the law and Pike/Google would receive the punishment, or they wouldn't and the clear written intent of the law would have been subverted.
If Congress wanted to systematically disadvantage men in favour of women they should have called it the "Female Rights Act".
With respect to your question the answer is yes, such cases have been won, like this one:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/men-rights-unruh-act-women-discrimination http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/01/men-rights-unruh...
- justin66 10y agoI'm looking at the article, and the material: 1) Doesn't involve the Civil Rights Act 2) Doesn't involve hiring at all 3) Involves settlements rather than court wins I strongly suspect that you don't like quotas, or intentional correction of a massive gender disparity in hiring, and so on, but I'm pretty sure you're wrong about the limits of the Civil Rights Act with regards to hiring. Hiring more women after realizing "we have a huge gender disparity problem" seems to me (not a lawyer) the sort of thing a company's employment lawyers would be happy to defend in court. If there are any real counterexamples, yeah, that'd be interesting to read about.