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Throughout the years, sexual discrimination cases have allowed for progress to be made in effectively implementing and creating an equal opportunity workplace. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, national origin, and religion. The employment provision, Title VII, was not initially intended to be part of the Civil Rights Act but was added and barred sexual discrimination.
Leading the fight to have sexual discrimination excluded from employment, Congresswoman Martha Griffiths, the National Organization for Women (NOW), women''s unions, and individual women in support of equality for all genders worked hard to get the provision taken seriously and enforced at the workplace. There were landmark sexual discrimination cases siding with the women that would help change practices.
Due to courageous women pushing to remove sex-based restrictions, the initial sexual discrimination cases completely altered the way occupational processes operated. Hiring, giving promotions, and benefits policies that disadvantaged women in the past changed because of these sexual discrimination cases, paving the way for women employees in years to come. Still, adjusting to changes as monumental as the Title VII provision can take time to become fully integrated.
The Civil Rights Act of 1991 allowed more rectification available to women under the Title VII provision. Since successful sexual discrimination cases were limited to just back pay, reinstatement, and other job specific claims while successful race discrimination cases allowed for other financial damages ordered upon the employer in the wrong, women believed sexual discrimination cases should be given the same rights. Even though successful sexual discrimination cases awarded women with back pay and reinstatement, it just meant the women would return to the same working environment that were in previously and had experienced negative surroundings.
Since the sexual discrimination cases offered no remedy in terms of the employers that were accused with the discrimination, the Civil Rights Act of 1991 provided for damages. Most notably in sexual discrimination cases is the Anita Hill testimony against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas in 1991. All of the sexual discrimination cases throughout time have allowed for a wider opening of rights for women in the workplace and has forced the public to scrutinize the way the system is set up.
Wal-Mart, the nation''s largest private employer, has just become the target of what is now the largest private civil rights case in U.S. history. A federal judge approved a class-action status for the sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on June 22, 2004. Representing as many as 1.6 million current and former female employees, the sexual discrimination case is sure to create more scrutiny at workplace practices.
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