Download Landmark Supreme Court Cases on Gender Discrimination in Employment and Education and more Quizzes Political Science in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Muller v. Oregon (1908) DEFINITION 1 Maximum hour laws.Oregon employer convicted of violating an NCL advocated law prohibiting women from working more than 8 hours a day.Claimed women needed protective legislation.Supreme Court upheld Oregon law. TERM 2 Adkins v. Children's Hospital (1923) DEFINITION 2 Minimum wage laws.Supreme Court declared minimum wage laws for women might force employers to hire men for less.This case challenged DC's "living wage" standard for women.NWP vs. NCL on protective legislation. TERM 3 Goesaert v. Cleary (1948) DEFINITION 3 Supreme Court upheld a Michigan law prohibiting any woman from working in a tavern, unless she was the wife/daughter of a tavern owner.Reinforced sentiments about women workers.Justified state legislatures' prohibitions against women workers. TERM 4 Rosenfeld v. Southern Pacific Co. (1971) DEFINITION 4 Ruled that the California law limiting women's work hours and weights they could lift violated Title VII of CRA of 1964 by limiting the hiring of women to agent-telegrapher jobs. TERM 5 Dothard v. Rawlinson (1977) DEFINITION 5 Court upheld Alabama's refusal to hire women as prison guards.Only case in which BFOQ were used to justify employer's refusal to hire women. TERM 6 Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. (2007) DEFINITION 6 Case dismissed by the Supreme Court because180 days had passed.Resulted in Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. TERM 7 Johnson v. Transportation Agency of Santa Clara California (1987) DEFINITION 7 Road dispatcher job involving a woman getting a job over a higher scoring man.Supreme Court upheld decision due to Title VII. TERM 8 Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986) DEFINITION 8 First case to reach Supreme Court, unanimous decision of a hostile working environment. TERM 9 Harris vs. Forklifts System (1993) DEFINITION 9 Employer asked female employees to fish for coins in his pocket, commented on female employees' bodies, invited one to hotel. Teresa Hill forced to quit her job.Lower court did not see as sexual harassment.Supreme Court disagreed with lower court. Action need not seriously affect employee well- being to constitute injury. TERM 10 Phillips v. Martin Marietta Co. (1971) DEFINITION 10 Company policy allowed hiring women, but not men, with school age children.Supreme Court- people of like qualifications must be given the same employment opportunities regardless of their sex.
