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Suja Thomas Interview - Part 2: How Employers Get Away With Discrimination
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6:37Now PlayingIn this Majority Report clip, author Suja Thomas discusses her new book, "Unequal: How American Courts Undermine Discrimination Law."
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"One reason women are accusing men of sexual harassment in the press, rather than the courts: The legal system that’s supposed to investigate, address, and prevent sexual harassment has failed them for decades.
That’s the conclusion from a review of more than 1,000 job discrimination cases by two law professors: Sandra Sperino at the University of Cincinnati, and Suja Thomas at the University of Illinois. Sperino and Thomas set out to understand how judges view discrimination cases. Their results are summarized in their new book, Unequal: How American Courts Undermine Discrimination Law.
Sexual harassment is illegal in all workplaces and in every state. It's a form of gender discrimination prohibited by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and it's illegal whether the alleged perpetrator is a person's co-worker or supervisor.
But Sperino and Thomas argue that federal court judges frequently dismiss sexual harassment cases that likely meet the requirements under the law."*
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