Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins
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Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins
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Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 U.S. 228 (1989), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court on the issues of prescriptive sex discrimination and employer liability for sex discrimination. The employee, Ann Hopkins, sued her former employer, the accounting firm Price Waterhouse. She argued that the firm denied her partnership because she did not fit the partners' idea of what a female employee should look and act like. The employer failed to prove that it would have denied her partnership a
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1989 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_Waterhouse_v._Hopkins
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2010-12-14T17:56:49Z
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2024-09-11T03:12:03Z
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