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The Impact of Legal Age Discrimination on Women in Professional Occupations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2015

Nancy B. Kurland
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This paper describes how anticipated age discrimination in the form of disparate treatment induces behavior that in effect constitutes gender discrimination. Potential employers often exhibit a common pattern of behavior that acts to discriminate against older workers entering a specific workplace. Women, at a decision-making point early in their lives, are aware of this pattern of discrimination. They perceive that it is important for them to establish their careers before they have a family because it will be more difficult for them to enter the work force at a later age and excel at their careers. This anticipated age discrimination disparately impacts women, resulting in gender discrimination.

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Business Ethics Quarterly , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 331 - 348
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Copyright © Society for Business Ethics 2001

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