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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Civil Rights Act"”.
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A theoretical analysis of the labor market wage and employment effects of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
… the labor market effects of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employers from practicing wage discrimination and employment dis- crimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, national origin or color. A theoretical model of the equal wage and the equal employment …
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Conversational circles influencing athletic policymaking during development, implementation, litigation, and enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 of the Civil Rights Act of 1965
… IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Specifically, the study focused on identifying conversational circles that emerged in legislative, judicial, print media, and educational spheres. These Conversational Circles appeared to influence gender equity policy …
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Mixed-Method Analyses of Federal Court Decisions During 1980-2007 Involving Race and Sex Discrimination Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Faculty Tenure Denial Decisions in Higher Education
<p>Purpose</p> <p>The Civil Rights Act of 1964 has become the foundation of modem federal equal employment opportunity law. The application of this law to adverse tenure decisions, however, may differ from other adverse employment decisions because of judicial deference toward institutions of …
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An Examination Into the Feasibility of Court-Annexed Arbitration of Title Vii Claims
… arbitration for the resolution of Title VII (Civil Rights Act of 1964) employment discrimination claims in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Court-annexed arbitration, as it is used here, is arbitration supervised by the courts.
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Affirmative action within the fire service: The background on the law and its effect on the fire service and how fire department policies reflect the affirmative action legislation.
… the citizens in which they serve. Affirmative action has been a polarizing issue since the day the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed. Many thoughts and feelings had been researched but no quantitative studies could be found. This study asked three main questions. Are the fire departments …
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Semiotic Analysis of Workforce Diversity
… set forth by and in consequence of the Civil Rights Act. This Act outlawed discrimination on the basis of sex, race, colour, religion, pregnancy, national origin, age, and disability. These categories emerge from a Western, specifically Anglo-Saxon, perspective and are rooted in a …
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Keeping America a white man’s country: Southern opposition to civil rights in the united states senate
… led by Georgia’s Richard Russell, forestalled civil rights legislation using the mechanisms of the Senate. The southern caucus beat back civil rights senators through a series of arguments that appealed both to the conservative nature of the Senate and their more conservative colleagues. While …
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Title VII: sex discrimination in higher education
… federal employment law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, Title VII was amended in 1972 to include education institutions. Ever since the protection of the civil rights law was extended to higher education, faculty employment discrimination litigation has increased. The …
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A technique for direct measurement of skin friction in supersonic combustion flow
… federal employment law, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, Title VII was amended in 1972 to include education institutions. Ever since the protection of the civil rights law was extended to higher education, faculty employment discrimination litigation has increased. The …
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Doorway to the Competitions of Life: African American Citizenship and Access to Higher Education
… as Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and the Civil Rights Act (1964) relied heavily on the Reconstruction Amendments to launch a revised attack on segregation and racial discrimination producing only limited success. However, more recent court cases and legislative changes such as Regents of …
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Battle in the skies: Sex discrimination in the United States airline industry, 1930 to 1978
… using the sex provision of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Gaining support from their unions, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and eventually the legal system, flight attendants successfully eliminated all of these policies, with the exception of weight regulations. The …
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Modern Sexist Attitudes Toward Female Supervisors
Despite the passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964, women employed by an organization generally remain in the entry level positions, while their male counterparts are promoted throughout the organization's hierarchy. Although there are many theories that attempt to explain the reasons for this …
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Gender discrimination and the future of equality
… living rooms. Starting with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1991, these events raised new social consciousness on women's rights. Events such as the confirmation of Justice Clarence Thomas, two highly publicized rape trials involving newsmaker-men, and the release of the "glass ceiling" …
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Mobility as a public service : integrating civil rights laws in partnerships between transit agencies and ride-hailing companies
… these partnerships meet the standards of federal civil rights law. Laws such as Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 require transit agencies to ensure that the benefits and burdens of their services are distributed equally. And yet despite the importance of these laws, little is known about …
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Discursive Diversity Strategy: Signaling Theory and Implications for Firm Value
… business. Dating back to the pre-Civil Rights era, what scholars now call discursive strategy–the language and meaning that shape phenomena–has shaped the diversity landscape. Over the past 75 years, we have witnessed a pattern of strategic maneuvering of the discursive strategy …
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Physical Ability Testing: A Review of Court Cases 1992-2014
… procedure. The establishment of both the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) had a profound impact on the manner in which selection testing may legally be conducted (Gutman, Koppes, & Vodanovich, 2011). The current study sought to analyze court cases involving …
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Fight the Power: Protest, Showdown and Civil Rights Activity in Three Southern Cities, 1960-1965.
… thesis describes the significant events of the Civil Rights Movement from 1960 to 1965, examining the campaigns of Albany, Georgia in 1962, Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, and Selma, Alabama in 1965. In the wake of the freedom rides of 1960-61, Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership …
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