Feminist Judgments

This book provides 15 employment discrimination cases rewritten from feminist perspectives, along with commentaries, to demonstrate what could have been.

This book is for scholars and students interested in employment law and feminism. It will provide readers with a new way to think about the law of employment discrimination, and how feminist perspectives might lead to a reimagined workplace that is more welcoming and prosperous for marginalized workers.How would feminist perspectives and analytical methods change the interpretation of employment discrimination law? Would the conscious use of feminist perspectives make a difference? This volume shows the difference feminist analysis can make to the interpretation of employment discrimination statutes. This book brings together a group of scholars and lawyers to rewrite fifteen employment discrimination decisions in which a feminist analysis would have changed the outcome or the courts' reasoning. It demonstrates that use of feminist perspectives and methodologies, if adopted by the courts, would have made a significant difference in employment discrimination law, leading to a fairer and more egalitarian workplace, and a more prosperous society.