Catherine Brennan v. Cass County Health

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• holding that employing only female correctional officers in women’s prison living units was appropriate “bona fide occupational qualification,” given business of prison
• holding that prison officials were required to “innovate” in order to serve the rehabilitative interests of the female inmates, because empirical studies concerning the rehabilitation of female inmates “simply did not exist” at the time
• distinguishing between \stereotyped characterizations of the sexes\ and \real ... differences between men and women\
• distinguishing between “stereotyped characterizations of the sexes” and “real ... differences between men and women”
• noting that female inmates at women’s maximum security prison permitted to cover windows in the doors of their rooms with “privacy cards” for up to ten minutes between hours of 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. while they are dressing or using the toilet
• “the presence of unrelated males in living spaces where intimate bodily functions take place is a cause of stress to females”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).