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  2. Equal employment opportunity - Wikipedia

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    President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Equal employment opportunity is equal opportunity to attain or maintain employment in a company, organization, or other institution. Examples of legislation to foster it or to protect it from eroding include the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which was established by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to assist in the protection of United ...

  3. Equal opportunity - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, for example, it is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; [16] [115] in Britain, there is the Equality of Opportunity Committee [24] as well as the Equality and Human Rights Commission; [44] in Canada, the Royal Commission on the Status of Women has "equal opportunity as its precept"; [116] and in China, the Equal ...

  4. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - Wikipedia

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    Role of Equal employment opportunity commission; Records of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the National Archives (Record Group 403) nytimes.com, discusses the fairly recent case involving allegations against Bloomberg unfairly treating pregnant women. Bloomberg won because of a lack of statistics on the Equal Employment ...

  5. Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination ...

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    Article 9 mandates state parties to "grant women equal rights with men to acquire, change or retain their nationality" and equal rights "with respect to the nationality of their children." [5] Article 10 mandates equal opportunity in education for female students and encourages coeducation. It also provides equal access to athletics ...

  6. Employment discrimination law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    "Title VII created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to administer the act". [12] It applies to most employers engaged in interstate commerce with more than 15 employees, labor organizations, and employment agencies. Title VII prohibits discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. It makes it illegal ...

  7. Office of Women's Social and Economic Opportunity - Wikipedia

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    In December 1970, the Bureau was given responsibility for administering the Women's Equal Employment Opportunities Act. However, in June 1972, this Act was repealed, and its provisions were incorporated into the Ontario Human Rights Code. As a result, the Women's Bureau was transferred to the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 1972. Late in ...

  8. Pregnancy discrimination - Wikipedia

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    Article 9 of Equal Employment Opportunity Act between Men and Women (Act No. 113 of July 1, 1972) prohibits unequal employment condition for the reasons of marriage, pregnancy, maternity leave provided in Article 65 of Labor Standards Act and other reasons related childbirth. These unequal employment conditions includes retirement, dismissal. [18]

  9. Equality Act (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The original Equality Act was developed by U.S. Representatives Bella Abzug (D-NY) and Ed Koch (D-NY) in 1974. The Equality Act of 1974 (H.R. 14752 of the 93rd Congress) sought to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, and marital status in federally assisted programs, housing sales, rentals, financing, and brokerage ...