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Section 7

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Section 7
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Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 U.S. 644 (2020)
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2020-06-15

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to the broader campaign for women’s rights that was underway at the
time. E.g., Osterman, supra; Freeman, How Sex Got Into Title VII: Per-
sistent Opportunism as a Maker of Public Policy, 9 L. & Ineq. 163 (1991);
Barzilay, Parenting Title VII: Rethinking the History of the Sex Discrim-
ination Provision, 28 Yale J. L. & Feminism 55 (2016); Gold, A Tale of
Two Amendments: The Reasons Congress Added Sex to Title VII and
Their Implication for the Issue of Comparable Worth, 19 Duquesne L.
Rev. 453 (1981). None of these studies has unearthed evidence that the
amendment was understood to apply to discrimination because of sexual
orientation or gender identity.
42                BOSTOCK v. CLAYTON COUNTY ALITO, J., dissenting