Economic Problems of Women: Hearings, Ninety-third Congress, First SessionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - 441 pages |
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administrative affirmative action plan agencies Amendment based on sex basis benefits bona fide occupational classification committee complaints CONGRESS THE LIBRARY contractors court DELURY DENENBERG Department of Labor differential disability insurance discrimination against women discriminatory divorced earnings economic EEOC eliminate Employment Opportunity Commission employment practice Employment Standards Administration enforcement Equal Employment Opportunity Equal Pay Act Equal Rights Amendment Executive Order 11246 fact families female employees FHLMC fide occupational qualification filed FNMA goals guidelines hiring husband increase institutions insurance companies insurance industry labor force legislation lenders male employees marital status maternity ment mortgage mortgage loans OFCC Office percent pregnancy premiums prepared statement programs prohibit regulations Representative GRIFFITHS require responsibility risk sex discrimination SIMCHAK staff statistics STEIN tion Title IX Title VII underwriting unemployment rate unlawful wage wife's income woman women and minorities Women's Bureau workers
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Page 207 - By marriage, the husband and wife are one person in law: that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 81 - The Commission has found that such laws and regulations do not take Into account the capacities, preferences, and abilities of individual females and tend to discriminate rather than protect.
Page 90 - Written or unwritten employment policies and practices involving matters such as the commencement and duration of leave, the availability of extensions, the accrual of seniority and other benefits and privileges, reinstatement, and payment under any health or temporary disability insurance or sick leave plan, formal or informal, shall be applied to disability due to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions on the same terms and conditions as they are applied to other disabilities.
Page 85 - The refusal to hire an individual based on stereotyped characterizations of the sexes. Such stereotypes include, for example, that men are less capable of assembling intricate equipment; that women are less capable of aggressive salesmanship. The principle of non-discrimination requires that individuals be considered on the basis of individual capacities and not on the basis of any characteristics generally attributed to the group.
Page 88 - For any employer or employment agency to print or circulate or cause to be printed or circulated any statement, advertisement, or publication, or to use any form of application for employment or to make any inquiry in connection with prospective employment, which expresses, directly or indirectly, any limitation, specification, or discrimination as to race, creed, color, or national origin, or any intent to make any such limitation, specification, or discrimination, unless based upon a bona fide...
Page 38 - Government in the light of the policy set forth in title I of this Act for the purpose of determining the extent to which such programs and activities are contributing to the achievement of such policy, and to make recommendations to the President with respect thereto; 4.
Page 90 - Disabilities caused or contributed to by pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, childbirth, and recovery therefrom are, for all job-related purposes, temporary disabilities and should be treated as such under any health or temporary disability insurance or sick leave plan available in 37 connection with employment.
Page 90 - It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to have a pension or retirement plan which establishes different optional or compulsory retirement ages based on sex, or which differentiates in benefits on the basis of sex.
Page 81 - It is an unlawful employment practice to classify a job as "male" or "female" or to maintain separate lines of progression or separate seniority lists based on sex where this would adversely affect any employee unless sex is a bona fide occupational qualification for that job. Accordingly, employment practices are unlawful which arbitrarily classify jobs so that: (1) A female is prohibited from applying for a job labeled "male," or for a job in a "male" line of progression; and vice versa.
Page 85 - Where it is necessary for the purpose of authenticity or genuineness, the Commission will consider sex to be a bona fide occupational qualification, eg, an actor or actress.