TABLE OF CONTENTS
TYPES OF DISCRIMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
SEXUAL HARASSMENT IS DISCRIMINATION . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .1
Laws That Govern Sexual Harassment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
How It Affects The Workplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
TYPES OF SEX DISCRIMINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Quid Pro Quo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5
Hostile Work Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
THE HIGH COST OF LITIGATION FOR EMPLOYERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
TYPES OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..8
EMPLOYER?S RESPONSIBILITY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Training . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
VII. CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
CASES CITED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
I. TYPES OF DISCRIMINATION
There are many forms of discrimination, especially in the workplace. Before we get into the different types of discrimination, we need to define the word discriminate which is, "to make a distinction in favor of or against a person or thing on the basis of the group, class, or category to which the person or thing belongs, rather than according to actual merit." Taken from the Unabridged Edition of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Like many people I was under the belief that to discriminate simply meant that y...
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Whitehead, Roy Jr.; Spikes, Pam; Yelvington, Brenda. "Sexual Harassment In The Office." CPA Journal. Vol. 66 No. 2: pp.42-45, February 1996.
Note: All periodicals were found through the Nexis/Lexis system in the Library.
CASES CITED
Ellison v. Brady, (1991) 924 F.2d 842
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Domino?s Pizza, Inc.,
909 F.Supp. 1529 (M.D.Fla. 1995)
Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc., 114 S.Ct. 367 (1993)
Matthews v. Superior Court (Regents of University of California), (1995)
34 Cal.App.4th 598.
Mogilefski v. Superior Court (Silver Pictures), (1993) 20 Cal.App.4th 1409.
Neal v. Director, District of Columbia Department of Corrections, U.S.Dist. LEXIS,
11461, 11469, 11515 (D.D.C. 1995)
Note: Cases cited were researched through the law library.
The Grandmother often finds herself at odds with the rest of her family. Everyone feels her domineering attitude over her family, even the youngest child knows that she's "afraid she'd miss something she has to go everywhere we go"(Good Man 2). Yet this accusation doesn't seem to phase the grandmother, and when it is her fault alone that the family gets into the car accident and is found by the Misfit, she decides to try to talk her way out of this terrible predicament.
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Although this story is told in the third person, the reader’s eyes are strictly controlled by the meddling, ever-involved grandmother. She is never given a name; she is just a generic grandmother; she could belong to anyone. O’Connor portrays her as simply annoying, a thorn in her son’s side. As the little girl June Star rudely puts it, “She has to go everywhere we go. She wouldn’t stay at home to be queen for a day” (117-118). As June Star demonstrates, the family treats the grandmother with great reproach. Even as she is driving them all crazy with her constant comments and old-fashioned attitude, the reader is made to feel sorry for her. It is this constant stream of confliction that keeps the story boiling, and eventually overflows into the shocking conclusion. Of course the grandmother meant no harm, but who can help but to blame her? O’Connor puts her readers into a fit of rage as “the horrible thought” comes to the grandmother, “that the house she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee” (125).
O'Connor, Flannery. ""A Good Man Is Hard to Find"" 1953. Literature and Its Writers: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. Ann Charters and Samuel Charters. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013. 497-508. Print.
During the family trip in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” to Georgia, the grandmother attempts to exude a lady-like facade. The grandmother wears “white cotton gloves...a navy blue straw sailor hat with a bunch of white violets … a navy blue dress with a small white dot in the print. Her collar and cuffs were white organdy...In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady”(O’Connor 450). Despite trying to appear prim and proper, the grandmother’s pretensions and superficiality become lucid through her hypocritical nature. When June Star pointed to a pant less black child, the grandma feel no sympathy and responds by saying, “Little niggers in the country don’t have things like we do. If I could paint, I’d paint that picture” (O’Connor 450). Her claims to be a lady cannot be justified with her racist and hypocritical actions. In addition, the selfish desire of the grandma to make a detour and her decision to bring the cat leads the family to wreck the vehicle and to be found by the Misfit. Before the accident and ensuing massacre occurred, the grandma was completely condescending, hypocritical, and complacent in her own world where she feels safe. The final confrontation bet...
Basson, in Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: An Overview of Developments, makes the claim that ‘unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature’ is not necessarily sexual harassment until a certain level or degree of unacceptability is attained (Basson, 2007: 426). This according to the author is the first step towards a threshold in which one should ask the question as to whether the conducts was welcomed or unwelcomed (Basson, 2007: 427). As far as the types of conduct that may be constituted as sexual harassment is concerned, a distinction is usually made, “within the broad spectrum of the sexual nature of the conduct, between physical, verbal and non-verbal conduct” (Basson, 2007: 427). Sexual harassment can also be defined as sexual innuendo, comments
Roberts, Barry S. and Richard A. Mann. ?Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: A Primer.? n.pag. On-line. Internet. 5 Dec 2000. Available WWW:
The grandmother lives with her only son, Bailey, his wife and their children. The beginning of the story the grandmother is preparing to take a trip with her son?s family to Florida; a place where she doesn?t even want to go. She wants the whole family to go to Tennessee to visit relatives (O?Connor 907).This is the first example of the egocentric ways that lead her to her demise. She wants to uproot the whole family ,only for her benefit. She also does not want to go to Florida because there is a escaped convict, an evil man, on the loose. She says, "The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to those people" (O?Connor 907). Critic Richard Spivey explains the use of violence in O?Connor?s work: "O?Connor dealt with violent and grotesque people because "man has in his...
Discrimination is discrimination regardless of what type of form it takes. There is truly only one kind if discrimination and that is where an individual's rights are infringed upon due to traits in which they have no power to control. Each and every one of us deserves to have the right to freedom and equality given to us by our forefather's.
Though the grandmother dies in the end, O’Connor’s use of foreshadowing, characterization, and a distinct point of view lead me to believe this is the beginning of a different life for The Misfit. After he kills the grandmother The Misfit immediately starts cleaning his glasses, an indication that he sees the world in a different way. He had originally thought there was no pleasure in anything but cruelty, eventually the Misfit decides “It’s no real pleasure in life.” He had wanted to see Jesus raise the dead more than anything, and The Misfit ultimately got his wish; the grandmother had a last minute relief from her unbearable pomposity and then died, presumably redeemed. And the Misfit finds a glimpse of human empathy and compassion from the last woman we would have expected it from.
In the book, Women in the Middle East, a Saudi Arabian proverb states, "A girl possesses nothing but a veil and a tomb" (Harik and Marston 83). The key words, "veil" and "tomb" lend evidence to the fact that many Middle Eastern women lack identity symbolized by the “veil” and lack the right of ownership except for their veil and the tomb. This statement further enforces the notion that many women in the Middle East are expected to serve and tolerate the oppression of the men in their lives throughout their lives on this earth. Moreover, it confirms that many of these women do not get the opportunity to obtain education, join the work force, and even participate in the political affairs of the country. This arrangement further helps the Middle Eastern men to view women as their properties, servants, or even as slaves. Ultimately, there are three main reasons why Middle Eastern men engage in the act of oppressing their women.
Discrimination laws exist to prevent discrimination based on race, sex, religion, national origin, physical disability, and age by employers. The main discriminatory practices identified today are bias in hiring, promotion, job assignment, termination, compensation, and various types of harassment. The following paragraphs outline the most common anti-discrimination laws today. (allbusiness.com, 2006)
The Women of the Middle East have played substantial roles for their corresponding countries since the advent of colonialism in the region. Middle Eastern women have worked in all types of fields including medicine, education, agriculture, government, private sector, and even defense. They have kept roofs over their family’s heads while their husbands were away in wars, or even in foreign countries to work in jobs that they could not find in their own countries. The roles of women in the countries of Yemen and Oman are no exception, but while they still find ways to contribute to their country, they care constantly stereotyped, discriminated, and ridiculed by men who are known and unknown to them. This paper will discuss the individual contributions of the women living in Yemen and Oman, and will discuss in further state laws and cultural norms that are affecting the women living in these countries today.
Cheryl, sixteen, trainer for her high-school girl's volleyball team and photographer for the school newspaper, arrived at the gym at about 9:00 Saturday for a volleyball tournament. She left her purse and equipment with friends while she went to the restroom. When the game started and she hadn't returned to the team's bench, her friends went to look for her. Her raped body was found behind some stage backdrops on the balcony of the school auditorium(Booher 12). Sexual harassment and rape are prevalent in all aspects of society.
For instance some of the sign of the sexual harassment can be from small comments on women's breast, unwanted body contact, offensive graphic pictures being sent directly to any individual. Sexual harassment can happen in a form of belittling remarks regarding specific ge...