{"id":1373,"date":"2019-12-12T21:39:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T02:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2019-12-16T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T21:27:08","slug":"the-foundation-set-from-title-vii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/stamas\/the-foundation-set-from-title-vii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foundation Set from Title VII"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1374\" style=\"width: 219px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1374\" class=\"wp-image-1374 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/files\/2019\/12\/equlity-on-trial-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/files\/2019\/12\/equlity-on-trial-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/files\/2019\/12\/equlity-on-trial.jpg 348w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of Equality on Trial by Katherine Turk<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1964, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, prohibited sex discrimination in employment. While this law did not clearly define sex discrimination, or how to cure it, it set a foundation of the working woman\u2019s fight for equality. In the following decades, Title VII revolutionized women\u2019s status in the American workplace (2). In her book Equality on Trial, Katherine Turk explores how Title VII served simultaneously as an inspiration and detriment to progressive visions of workplace gender equality. She examines how numerous groups such as workplace caucuses, feminist organizations, and unions, use this law to, \u201creset the terms of economic citizenship from laboring women\u2019s perspective\u201d (9). Turk\u2019s work fits in nicely with Edelman\u2019s article \u201cUnions on the Line: Myth vs. Reality\u201d, as well as Johnnie Tillmon\u2019s essay \u201cWelfare is a Women\u2019s Issue\u201d, both works that were made possible after the discussion and controversy that different interpretations of Title VII inspired.<\/p>\n<p>Turk, Katherine.&nbsp;<em>Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace.<\/em> University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.&nbsp;JSTOR, www.jstor.org\/stable\/j.ctt1btc5x9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1964, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, prohibited sex discrimination in employment. While this law did not clearly define sex discrimination, or how to cure it, it set a foundation of the working woman\u2019s fight for equality. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/stamas\/the-foundation-set-from-title-vii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stamas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}