{"id":42858,"date":"2015-09-23T19:29:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T19:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42858"},"modified":"2016-10-12T16:09:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T16:09:46","slug":"heres-why-equal-protection-may-not-protect-everyone-equally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42858","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s why Equal Protection may not protect everyone equally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/in-theory\/wp\/2015\/09\/23\/heres-why-equal-protection-may-not-protect-everyone-equally\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here\u2019s why Equal Protection may not protect everyone equally<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-23<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/law.gsu.edu\/profile\/lauren-sudeall-lucas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lauren Sudeall Lucas<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>Georgia State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Intersectionality is the acknowledgment that different forms of identity-based discrimination can combine to give rise to unique brands of injustice. For example, although women may generally face certain challenges in the workplace \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2013\/09\/women-in-the-workplace-a-research-roundup\" target=\"_blank\">unequal pay and the \u201cmotherhood penalty\u201d<\/a> are common \u2014 women of color may face different obstacles, including a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pay-equity.org\/info-race.html\" target=\"_blank\">bigger wage gap<\/a> and the perception that they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ruchikatulshyan\/2015\/02\/10\/speaking-up-as-a-woman-of-color-at-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">too aggressive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/wex\/equal_protection\" target=\"_blank\">Equal Protection Clause<\/a> is the primary constitutional tool for addressing claims of identity-based discrimination. Finding out whether an incident of discrimination is legal typically begins with identifying the identity category \u2014 such as race or gender \u2014 on which the alleged discrimination is based. Depending on the category invoked, courts will apply varying levels of analysis to the claim, making it easier or harder for those accused of discrimination to defend their policies.<\/p>\n<p>But for those who face discrimination at the intersection of multiple identity categories, it is not immediately clear how a court should respond. If someone claims that she has been denied the equal protection of the law because she is a black woman, should the alleged discrimination be examined with strict scrutiny, the most stringent standard of review in the court system, which is applied to classifications based on race? Or should it be treated with intermediate scrutiny, the lesser standard typically applied to gender classifications?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/in-theory\/wp\/2015\/09\/23\/heres-why-equal-protection-may-not-protect-everyone-equally\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s why Equal Protection may not protect everyone equally The Washington Post 2015-09-23 Lauren Sudeall Lucas, Assistant Professor of Law Georgia State University Intersectionality is the acknowledgment that different forms of identity-based discrimination can combine to give rise to unique brands of injustice. For example, although women may generally face certain challenges in the workplace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,26,20],"tags":[17898,2875,2581],"class_list":["post-42858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-lauren-sudeall-lucas","tag-the-washington-post","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42858"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42861,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42858\/revisions\/42861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}