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| Titre : | Falling Between the Cracks : Discrimination Laws and Older Women (2020) |
| Auteurs : | Joanne Song McLaughlin |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Labour (vol. 34, n° 2, June 2020) |
| Article en page(s) : | 215-238 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ TRAVAILLEUR AGE ; FEMME ; DIVISION SEXUELLE DU TRAVAIL ; AGE ; LEGISLATION DU TRAVAIL ; COMPARAISON ; GENRE |
| Résumé : | Theories and evidence suggest that older women may experience unique discrimination for being both old and female in the workplace. To provide a remedy for this type of discrimination — known as intersectional discrimination — legal scholars argue that age and sex discrimination laws must be used jointly and acknowledge intersectional discrimination (age‐plus‐sex or sex‐plus‐age discrimination) as a separate cause of action. Nonetheless, in general, courts have declined to do so even though older women are protected under both age and sex discrimination laws. This raises a concern that age discrimination laws may be ineffective, or less effective in protecting older women. I test this implication by estimating the differential effect of age discrimination laws on labor market outcomes between older women and older men. My findings show that age discrimination laws did far less to improve labor market outcomes for older women than for older men.[...] (source: article) |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/labr.12175 |
