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Legal Perspectives on Sex Equity in Faculty Employment
Author(s) -
Gray Mary W.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1985.tb01146.x
Subject(s) - redress , salary , scrutiny , equity (law) , certification , labour economics , pay equity , promotion (chess) , liability , consistency (knowledge bases) , political science , law , economics , politics , geometry , mathematics
Faculty women have had limited success in winning redress for employment discrimination in hiring, salary, promotion, and tenure. Courts have shown little consistency but have in general been unwilling to interfere in academic decision making. The narrowing of time periods for liability, the redefining of evidentiary burdens, the tightening of rules for class certification, and the subjecting of statistical evidence to detailed scrutiny have slowed even further any progress towards equality of opportunity. The burdens in time and money faced by those seeking remedies make litigation accessible to only a few, leaving internal institutional reform as the only means of moving towards sex equity.