Books Details
Author : Lauren B. Edelman Pages : 312 pages Publisher :
University of Chicago Press Language : ISBN-10 : 022640062X
ISBN-13 : 9780226400624
Books Descriptions
Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all
companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. Although
these policies represent some progress, women and minorities
remain underrepresented within the workplace as a whole and
even more so when you look at high-level positions. They also
tend to be less well paid. How is it that discrimination
remains so prevalent in the American workplace despite the
widespread adoption of policies designed to prevent it? One
reason for the limited success of antidiscrimination policies,
argues Lauren B. Edelman, is that the law regulating companies
is broad and ambiguous, and managers therefore play a critical
role in shaping what it means in daily practice. Often, what
results are policies and procedures that are largely symbolic
and fail to dispel long-standing patterns of discrimination.
Even more troubling, these meanings of the law that evolve
within companies tend to eventually make their way back into
the legal domain,
