Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2012
Department
Political Science
Abstract
The determination that sexual harassment constituted “discrimination based on sex” under Title VII was first made by the lower federal courts, not Congress. Drawing from the literature on policy diffusion, this article examines the adoption of hostile work environment standards across the U.S. Courts of Appeals in the absence of controlling Supreme Court precedent. The results bolster recent findings about the influence of female judges on their male colleagues and suggest that in addition to siding with female plaintiffs, female judges also helped to shape legal rules that promoted gender equality in the workplace.
Original Publication Information
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:
Moyer, Laura P. and Holley Tankersley. "Judicial Innovation and Sexual Harassment Doctrine in the U.S. Courts of Appeals." 2012. Political Research Quarterly 65(4): 784-798.
which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1065912911411097.
ThinkIR Citation
Moyer, Laura P. and Takersley, Holley, "Judicial innovation and sexual harassment doctrine in the U.S. court of appeals." (2012). Faculty and Staff Scholarship. 82.
https://ir.library.louisville.edu/faculty/82
DOI
10.1177/1065912911411097
ORCID
0000-0002-5802-801X
