Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. National Education Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• concluding discriminatory harassment claim should survive summary judgment where plaintiffs alleged supervisor treated female employees worse than males
• concluding that harassers need not intend to discriminate
• finding discrimination “because of . . . sex” where “primarily women were the targets” of employer’s conduct
• analyzing a manager’s daily “pattern of verbal and physical intimidation” (emphasis added)
• “[T]here is no legal requirement that hostile acts be overtly sex–or gender-specific in content, whether marked by language, by sex or gender stereotypes, or by sexual overtures.”
• “‘[D]irect comparative evidence about how the alleged harasser treated members of both sexes’ is always an available evidentiary route.” (quoting Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Servs., Inc., 523 U.S. 75, 80–81 (1998))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).