May Cortez-Beatty

Professor Buckler

BUS 311-1900

September 4th, 2020

Equal Employment & The law

Equality in the USA has been a challenge over the years and has affected women in most sectors where they areconsidered to have fewer rights than their male counterparts. For instant, tenants have been evicted from their homes andemployees fired from their jobs. Equality rights have to strengthen civil rights and be effected in two ways. First, the bill has to expand civil rights protection and protect them from sexual discrimination in public places such as transport services, places that sell goods and services, and entertainment avenues. Secondly, it has to clarify that federal sex discrimination laws are prohibited based on sexual orientation, stereotypes, gender identity, sex characteristics, and pregnancy (Siegel, and Reva, 772). This avenue calls for legislation to ensure all have equal rights. Therefore, equal rights legislation needs to address the US and protect vulnerable people’s lives in society. Also, the discrimination over the female being perceived as the less fortunate in the society, especially in the workplace, has been on the spot. Many organizations need to increase measures to ensure that job seekers have equal employment rights, and the employees are protected from sexual discrimination (Gitman).

As the country continues to fight for equal rights and employment, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s works continue to pave the way for equality and justice across all corridors. As a graduate from the law school from Harvard, she faced sexual discrimination challenges in securing a job (Merritt, and David, 39). In the 1970s, she argued over six cases on gender equality before the US Supreme Court as a director under ACLU(Williams, 41; Campbell, 157). Also, she fostered equal rights and won five cases based on the Social Security Act in which the widowers were not favored. As a judge in the Supreme Court, she continued to present a strong voice for workers’ rights and gender equality (Merritt, 639). For that reason, she won an award in 1999 for contributions to civil rights and gender equality. Thus, her work is recognized and continues to pave the way for gender equality to reduce employment and general society’s discrepancies.

Works

Campbell, Amy Leigh. “Raising the Bar: Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project.” Tex. J. Women & L. 11 (2001): 157.

Gitman, Lawrence J., et al. “Employee Selection.” Introduction to Business (2018).

Merritt, Deborah Jones, and David M. Lieberman. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Jurisprudence of Opportunity and Equality.” Colum. L. Rev. 104 (2004): 39.

Merritt, Deborah Jones. “Hearing the Voices of Individual Women and Men: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.” U. Haw. L. Rev. 20 (1998): 635.

Siegel, Neil S., and Reva B. Siegel. “Struck by stereotype: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on pregnancy discrimination as sex discrimination.” Duke Law Journal 59.4 (2010): 771-798.

Williams, Wendy W. “Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Equal Protection Clause: 1970-80.” Colum. J. Gender & L. 25 (2013): 41.