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· 10/14/1963

Ryan v. President of the Senate

Citations

  • 375 U.S. 7
  • 84 S. Ct. 45
  • 11 L. Ed. 2d 38
  • 1963 U.S. LEXIS 505

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that “[t]he employer must demonstrate that there is a compelling need to maintain that practice, and the practice cannot be justified by routine business considerations” (internal quotation marks omitted)
  • role-model rule forbidding employment of single pregnant women in Girls Club organization qualified as BFOQ
  • per se intentional discrimination eliminates the McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting procedure

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