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DeGraffenreid v. General Motors Assembly Div., ETC., 413 F. Supp. 142 (E.D. Mo. 1976)
| | | |Female workers of colour - discriminatory dismissal – “last hired, first fired” criterion – Gender discrimination – Race Discrimination - Discrimination based on gender and race
In a case of a dismissal carried out on the basis of the \'last hired, first fired\' criterion and claimed discriminatory due to the most unfavorable effects on African American female workers, the Court, called to sanction sexual and racial discrimination, opposed the creation of any new classifications (African American women) stating that “the creation of new classes of protected minorities, governed only by the mathematical principles of permutation and combination, [would] clearly raise the prospect of opening the hackneyed Pandora’s box”. The plaintiffs should have to prove to be victims of discrimination because of their race or of their gender they would have had a case, but since General Motors was not discriminatory against white women nor black men, the lawsuit was dismissed.
Per un introduzione alla nozione di discriminazione multipla, leggi la nota di Barbara Giovanna Bello e Letizia Mancini