When is a gender discrimination lawsuit not about gender discrimination? Always. Gender discrimination cases are proxies for challenges to existing social norms that support unearned privilege. A claim of gender discrimination is a charge that there is bias, both conscious and unconscious, that perpetuates the status quo. Ellen Pao’s suit against the venture capital firm Kleiner, […]
Author: Sean M. Scott
Sean M. Scott is senior associate dean and a professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where she teaches Race, Gender & the Law and other courses.