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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Civil Rights Act of 1964"”.
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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
… dissertation explores 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 …
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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
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the feasibility of adopting a system called court-annexed 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 …
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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.
… a quantitative study showing demographic make-up of the fire department rosters and 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 …
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Title VII: sex discrimination in higher education
… comprehensive 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 …
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A technique for direct measurement of skin friction in supersonic combustion flow
… comprehensive 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 …
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Battle in the skies: Sex discrimination in the United States airline industry, 1930 to 1978
… appearance. This thesis traces the development of policies, such as marriage bans, age ceilings, weight regulations, and prohibitions against pregnancy, designed to create and maintain this image. In the 1960s and 1970s, flight attendants challenged the legitimacy of these policies using the sex …
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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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Mobility as a public service : integrating civil rights laws in partnerships between transit agencies and ride-hailing companies
Recently, a number of public transportation agencies have formed partnerships with Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft. Proponents of these collaborations emphasize their potential to expand the reach of public transportation systems, while skeptics caution that transit …
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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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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
The purpose of this historical research was to identify and describe distinct conversational circles developing in separate and overlapping decision-making communities during the implementation and enforcement of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. …
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Fight the Power: Protest, Showdown and Civil Rights Activity in Three Southern Cities, 1960-1965.
<p>This 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 …
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Employment Discrimination and Affirmative Action: Are Affirmative Action Plans Helpful or Hurtful?
Prior to 1964, employment discrimination in the United States was rampant. African Americans, females and other minorities were treated cruelly, creating an appalling work environment. A number of confrontational events occurred in the 1950’s and 1960’s that caused minority leaders to push for …
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An Historical Analysis of the Chicago Public Schools Desegregation Consent Decree (1980 - 2006): Establishing Its Relationship with the Brown v. Board Case of 1954 and the Implications of Its Implementation on Educational Leadership
<p>This study provides an historical analysis of the Chicago Public School Desegregation Consent Decree, while illustrating its relationship with the Brown v. Board of 1954. It provides and analysis of the mission and objectives of all three versions of the Consent Decree which include: The …
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Cultural Bias In English Language Arts Curriculum And Its Effect On African American And Spanish-Speaking English Language Learners In A Municipal School
… textbooks and African Americans since the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, even in today's 21st century market, textbook editors and publishers continue to manufacture textbooks that now include African Americans and other ethnicities, but only occasionally in roles that build up the …
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The Voter ID: The New Black Codes
… limit the political power and social influence of African-Americans in the U.S. These laws came into existence during Reconstruction and transformed into the Jim Crow Laws, ushering in a new form of discrimination that sought to subjugate the African-American people under the foot of white …
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A Study Of Public Employee Labor Law In The United States
This study examined the legal issues of public employee labor relations in the United States. Included in this study is a review of relevant case law as it pertains to collective bargaining in the public sector. In addition to reviewing the case law, this study researched the statutory language of …
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Analyzing transit equity using automatically collected data
… providers can obtain and analyze larger volumes of information, with more accuracy, and at more frequent intervals than are available through traditional origin-destination (OD) surveys. Automatic OD inference can be an input into the analysis and reporting of agencies' social goals, such as the …
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Benjamin E. Mays: The Role of Character in the Prolonged Struggle for African American Civil Rights
This study examined the life of Benjamin Elijah Mays, in terms of discerning his character strengths and the role they played in addressing equality issues during his lifetime and beyond. Character was defined by the analytic framework of Peterson and Seligman's Character Strengths and Virtues: A …
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A study of the Newport News pupil desegregation process
… Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in response to a suit filed by black residents of the city of Newport News, Virginia, handed down a plan of school desegregation for the city public school system which represented a significant departure from the city's then operating …
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