Sex Discrimination: Employment Law and Practices by Arjun P. Aggarwal

Sex Discrimination in Employment: Survey and Analysis

With its socio-economic development, the issue of China’s female discrimination in labor employment field is increasingly significant. This present paper identifies the status quo of females in employment, salary, career development, retirement age, and other respects and problems on the basis of a survey on Shandong women employment in a variety of enterprises. Then it continues an objective a...

Fairest of Them All? Comparing Qualifications Under Employment Discrimination Law

Fairest of Them All? Comparing Qualifications Under Employment Discrimination Law

Discrimination Law: Justification, Alternative Measures and Defences Based on Sex

An employment practice which has a disproportionate impact on women and cannot be ‘justified’ amounts to indirect sex discrimination under s 1(1)(b), Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (SDA). It may also be unlawful under European Community law, in particular A 141 (equal pay) and the Equal Treatment Directive (76/207). The same formula is used to define indirect racial discrimination in s 1(1)(b), Ra...

Arjun Appadurai

The Argument This essay seeks to provide a new approach to the question: why does culture matter? Let us lengthen the question and ask why it matters for development and for the reduction of poverty. This both narrows and deepens the question. The answer is that it is in culture that ideas of the future, as much as of those about the past, are embedded and nurtured. Thus, in strengthening the c...