Annotated Bibliography
What Are The Different Forms Of Employment Discrimination Among Men and Woman?
Allred G. (2006) Fight back and win. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
Allred, an aggressive civil rights lawyer and a feminist handles cases involving employment discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion, AIDS, and national origin. This book consists of many court cases involving all levels of discrimination and the outcome in such chapters as “Fight Back At Work” and “Little Things Start Big Changes”. Allred depicts that although we have made significant strides in recent decades, but more importantly how much further we still have to go for equality and empowerment of all members of society-- especially women, minorities, and others who are deprived of their rights.
Bennet, J. Ellison, J. Ball, S. Register, S. Skaggs, T. (2010). Are we there yet? Newsweek, 155 Issue (13), 42-46.
In this article the authors from the magazine “Newsweek” discuss the issues arising from gender discrimination and employment in the United States. Among several issues the authors discuss pay equity, gender discrimination and superiority of men in journalism and related fields. The main focal point of the article is the extent in which woman have accomplished equality in employment throughout the decades.
Busse, R. (2004). Employeess’ rights: Your practical handbook to workplace law. Naperville, IL Sphinx Publishing.
Busse obtained his law degree in 1974 from the University of California, Hastings College of Law and has practiced employment law since 1975. Busse gives clear and practical advice that every employee should read to be certain about his or her rights, but all employers should know as well. Busse demonstrates that discrimination still exist in the workplace and the various ways in which workers are being discriminated against. This book discusses three important issues, to educate on types of discrimination, simple aspects of your life as an employee, and examples of court cases. According to Busse men and woman are still facing pregnancy discrimination, sexual harassment, sexually segregated and job classification. Busse focuses on the recent progress, with the intent of informing the employee or employer not only of the historical perspective, but also of recent trends.
What Are The Different Forms Of Employment Discrimination Among Men and Woman?
Repa, B. (2007). Your rights in the workplace (8th ed.). ,[rev.] Berkeley, CA: NOLO.
Repa an expert on employment rights who has more than 20 years of experience on workplace legal issues points out different types of discrimination in the workplace such as sexual harassment, illegal discrimination against age, gender, gay and lesbian workers, equal pay, disability, race, or pregnancy.
Log Cabin Republicans. (2010) Web page. Log Cabin Republicans Website. Retrieved from http://online.logcabin.org/
The Log Cabin Republicans work within the Republican Party to advocate equal rights and equality among all Americans. The Log Cabin Republicans are the only Republican organization that supports fairness and equality for gay and lesbian Americans. They acknowledge that job discrimination, for any reason is un-American. In addition, this website supports the logic that freedom depends on people having the opportunity to pursue any career they wish without prejudice upon their sexual orientation.
Pager, D. Bonikowski, B. Wester, B. (2009) Discrimination in a low-wage labor market: A field experiment. American Sociological Review, 74 (5), 777-799.
Pager, Bonikowski, and Western, Princeton University professors conducted an experiment to study current discrimination in the low-wage labor market in New York City. They recruited white, black and Latino job applicants who were given equal value resumes and sent to apply for hundreds of entry-level positions. The article proposed that black applicants were half as likely as equally qualified as whites to be called back for a job offer. In addition, results indicated that black and Latino applicants with clean backgrounds fared no better than white applicants that were just released from prison. They offer evidence that subtle forms of discrimination continue to arrange employment opportunities for low-wage workers.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (2010) Web page. U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Retrieved from http://www.eeoc.gov/
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is a government agency that is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against an employee or job applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, age, pregnancy, national origin, sexual harassment or disability. The EEOC also protects against retaliation of a person because the employee or job applicant complained about discrimination, filed discrimination, or was involved with a discrimination lawsuit or investigation. The EEOC website is an excellent source for information on different types of discrimination, filing a claim or lawsuit, remedies, publications or statistics.
