Struck by Stereotype: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Pregnancy Discrimination as Sex Discrimination
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It was always recognition that one thing that conspicuously distinguishes women from men is that only women become pregnant; and if you subject a woman to disadvantageous treatment on the basis of her pregnant status, which was what was happening to Captain Struck, you would be denying her equal treatment under the law.(1)
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Siegel, R (2010). Struck by Stereotype: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Pregnancy Discrimination as Sex Discrimination. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/4214.
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