Parental Status Employment Discrimination: A Wrong in Need of a Right?
38 Pages Posted: 30 Jan 2008
Abstract
The Article examines existing and proposed efforts to help workers with childcare obligations balance the demands of work and family by treating parental status as a protected category - similar to race and sex - in equal employment opportunity statutes. The Article argues that while a parental-based approach to employment discrimination stands to promote a gender-neutral understanding of childcare, and in the process advance the interests of all workers, men and women, the approach ultimately lacks the capacity to effect substantive change in the situation of working parents.
Keywords: parental discrimination, child care, employment, parenthood, work-family, race discrimination
JEL Classification: J12, J13, J71, J78
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