Job applicants with criminal records are much less likely than others to obtain legitimate employment. Recent efforts to address this problem include campaigns to persuade employers to hire applicants with a record voluntarily and legislation such as Ban the Box laws. The success of any remedial...

Traditionalists often explain the glass ceiling by arguing that women lack the competitive drive to succeed in high level environments. Current research, I argue, suggests that women may be just as motivated to succeed as men but that the average woman and the average man function best in very...

Job applicants with criminal records are much less likely than others to obtain legitimate employment. Recent efforts to address this problem include campaigns to persuade employers to hire applicants with a record voluntarily and legislation such as Ban the Box laws. The success of any remedial...

In recent years, some discrimination plaintiffs have introduced pure social framework evidence that discrimination remains common in American society and applied social framework evidence that discrimination is likely to occur in circumstances like those found in the defendant firm. Pure social...