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17 Jun 2016, 1:36 am by Family Law
Fellow legal blog Concurring Opinions is doing a very interesting symposium on Joanna Grossman's book: http://concurringopinions.com/archives/2016/06/nine-to-five-book-symposium.html [read post]
15 Jun 2016, 9:13 am by Tracy Thomas
Concurring Opinions hosted a symposium of several book reviews on Joanna Grossman's new book Nine to Five. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 7:53 am by Tracy Thomas
Joanna Grossman, Say No to This: Courts Must Stop Holding that Firing Attractive Women is Not Sex Discrimination In a recent case, Edwards v. [read post]
30 May 2016, 9:02 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
In the musical Hamilton, with which I am admittedly obsessed, the main character pleads with his own superego or perhaps some higher power to “show me how to say no to this” when he is first confronted with Mariah Reynolds, an ostensibly abandoned woman who pleads with Hamilton for help.Although Alexander Hamilton ends up in a long affair with her, and pays her husband for the privilege—a series of actions that contribute to his political undoing—he understands that what he… [read post]
23 May 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Grant Hayden
A recent editorial in the Tallahassee Democrat reported on, and praised, the students at Leon High School, who elected two women to serve as prom king and queen. [read post]
10 May 2016, 9:48 am by Tracy Thomas
Joanna Grossman (Hofstra/SMU), Nine to Five: How Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Continue to Define the American Workplace (Cambridge University Press, May 2016) At the heart of this collection is a basic question: What is sex discrimination? [read post]
For example, as discussed in the recent spate of transgender bathroom controversies and discussed in a separate column today by Joanna Grossman, Title IX regulations expressly permit schools to provide different bathroom and locker room facilities on the basis of sex (although OCR has opined that schools do not have the power to dictate which facility a transgender student must use, and the U.S. [read post]
2 May 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Bathrooms have been at the center of several recent controversies—most notably, of course, involving North Carolina’s HB2, an unconstitutional law that prevents transgender individuals from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity at any public school or university and in any governmental building. [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
For better or worse, the modern face of polygamy in the United States is Kody Brown, a floppy-haired man with one legal wife, three “spiritual” wives, and more than a dozen kids. [read post]
16 Mar 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. [read post]
15 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Last April, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Peggy Young, a UPS driver who claimed she was the victim of unlawful pregnancy discrimination when she was denied a routine workplace accommodation that was made available to many other workers with similar limitations. [read post]
1 Feb 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
This is more or less the message of a recent case, Gottlieb v. [read post]
18 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Media reports abound about a lawsuit filed by a woman in California against a man in Georgia who hired her to carry children for him as a surrogate. [read post]
Recently, two stories involving the naked human body found their way into the news. [read post]