Sexual harassment. Speaks of the cases of Muriel Kraszewski and Ann Hopkings
Just 20 years ago, in most states a woman could not sign an apartment lease, get a credit rating, or apply for a loan unless her husband or a male relative agreed to share the responsibility. Similarly, a 1965 study found that fifty one percent of men though women were 'temperamentally unfit for management.' There can be no doubt that we have progressed a long way from these ideas in the last three decades. However, it is also unquestionable that women in the work force are still discriminated against, sexually harassed, paid less than men, and suffer from occupational sex segregation and fears of failure as well as fears of success. We will address all of these concerns in this paper, and look at some well-known court cases as illustrations.
Anyone who thinks sex discrimination is a thing of the past only has to ask Muriel Kraszewski or Ann Hopkings to learn differently. Muriel Kraszewski worked for State Farm Insurance Company for twelve years and was the leading candidate for an important promotion. She was denied the promotion because, her employers said, she had no college degree and was too much under the control of her husband. Kraszewski sued the company and won her case, after a nine year battle, in late January 1988. She was given what may be the largest sex-bias award in history: up to two hundreds of millions for 1,113 other female State Farm employees with similar complaints, and $433,000 for Kraszewski her-self.
Ann Hopkings was one of Price Waterhouse's top young executives. She had the best record for getting and maintaining big accounts, but when she came up for a partnership in 1982, she was denied because several male partners had evaluated her as 'too macho.' They advised her to walk, talk, and dress more...
More Women's Studies
essays:
Sexual Harrassment
... known court cases as illustrations. Anyone who thinks sex discrimination is a thing of the past only has to ask Muriel Kraszewski or Ann Hopkings to learn differently. Muriel Kraszewski worked for State Farm Insurance Company for twelve years and ...
Does Feminism Provide a Positive Direction for Society?
... take years of re-socialization and structural change within society, but we must attempt it nonetheless. Mothers can no longer play the solitary domestic role - not while participating in the work force as well. If women are ...
Gender Role of Women in Society
... AFL), no longer carried much weight in the labor movement. Itsearly demise, however, could not detract from the unprecedented role played by the Knights ofLabor in the promotion of women in the work force. The most ...
A womans struggle in the work force.
... the extent of discrimination remaining in the work force is the "unexplained" difference in pay. In the past thirty years, women have made significant progress in the labour force ...
Portrayal of women in soaps
... that women in soaps can be portrayed as strong individuals, even powerful in the work force. They can be manipulative, controlling and use sex, money ... get what she wanted, including a job at Kate's company. Kate and Sammy fight dirty, and they will not rest ...
The Ins And Outs of Abortion: abortion activists, Laws and Policies of Abortion, Landmark Court Cases, abortion techniques, long term effects, and The History of Abortion.
... If one were to get caught having an abortion an immediate capital punishment would occur. In the United States however, the distinction between quickening was nearly none, the punishment remained the same on either view. In 1812 the Massachusetts Supreme Court ...
This is an essay about the New Women's Movement in the United States that emerged in the 1960s. The question: What did the New Women's Movement seek to achieve and was it successful?
... for women violated Title VII in the City of Los Angeles V Manhart Case . They gained success in highlighting sexual harrassment as an unwanted problem. In 1977, Federal Appeals Courts ruled that sexual harrassment constituted sex discrimination under ...
Gender Issues
... Chaney stated "Women have made a major contribution to the war effort. We could not have won without them." The Gulf War had the largest deployment of women in the armed forces in history. Twenty one females ...