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Beyond the Zero-Sum Game: Toward Title VII Protection for Intergroup Solidarity
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Zatz, Noah D. |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | This article explores how employment discrimination law treats workers who cross race and gender lines to counter discrimination. When such employees suffer workplace sanctions and seek redress, analysis of their claims often is confounded by courts' assumption that men and women, whites and people of color necessarily are locked in oppositional relationships. As a result, these plaintiffs may seem paradoxically to claim injury from workplaces biased in their favor, throwing doubt on their standing to sue. The article rejects this premise that race and gender relations are simply a zero-sum game between cohesive, pre-defined competitors. Instead, relations between social groups are inextricably tied to the relations within those groups: discrimination against women rests in part on control by men of other men, who are expected to engage in (or avoid) particular interactions with women. Workplace enforcement of such sex and race stereotypes regarding inter-group interactions is a recognized form of prohibited employment discrimination, and so workplace injuries imposed because of inter-group solidarity can violate Title VII. On this view, employment discrimination law can support ordinary workers' efforts to defy the workplace dynamics that produce and maintain race and sex antagonism, not merely shift their costs from one group to another. |
| Starting Page | 2 |
| Ending Page | 2 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 77 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1880&context=ilj&httpsredir=1&referer= |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://webshare.law.ucla.edu/Faculty/bibs/zatz/Zatz-BeyondZeroSumGame.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
