Misogynist Manifesto: Project 2025's Plans to Gut Women's Rights in the Workplace and Classroom
(the horror just goes on and on and. . . . a lengthy, really upsetting read )
Misogynist Manifesto: Project 2025’s Plans to Gut Women’s Rights in the Workplace and Classroom
PUBLISHED 9/10/2024 by Carrie N. Baker
Project 2025’s plans for women students and workers would devastate their educational opportunities, harming their careers and earning power.
A woman on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., on Oct. 9, 2016, ahead of the second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. (Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images)
This is part two in a three-part series about Project 2025, the extremist blueprint for the next Republican president that maps out the permanent reversal of more than 50 years of hard-fought gains for American women and girls. Part one analyzed the misogynist manifesto’s plans for “biblically based” marriages and rollbacks on reproductive rights. Part three, out Wednesday, will tackle the right-wing vision to “rip and shred” the federal government and democracy as we know it.
Gutting Women’s Workplace Rights
Project 2025 eviscerates women’s long-held rights to sex equality in the workplace. It calls for the next president to rescind executive orders signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the mid-1960s that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of race and sex, and it would weaken Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sex discrimination in employment. First, it would narrow the meaning of the word sex in Title VII to mean the “biological binary meaning of ‘sex,’” allowing employment decisions based on gender stereotypes. In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that an accounting firm violated Title VII when it denied a woman partnership based on partners’ comments that she needed “a course in charm school” and should “walk more femininely, talk more femininely, dress more femininely, wear make-up, have her hair styled, and wear jewelry.” Project 2025 would reverse this interpretation—which would also exclude LGBTQ+ people from Title VII protections in defiance of the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision, penned by conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch, in Bostock v. Clayton County.
The plan calls for the next president to eliminate Title VII coverage of disparate impact discrimination, where an employer practice appears to be sex-neutral but falls more harshly on women than men and cannot be justified by business necessity. That would mean, for example, that employers could disproportionately screen out female job candidates by using unnecessary strength, aerobic capacity and endurance tests or height requirements unrelated to the job.
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Rolling Back Women’s Educational Equality
The Heritage Foundation’s plan calls for the elimination of the Department of Education, which enforces Title IX, the law that prohibits sex discrimination in education. It would allow Title IX enforcement only through litigation filed by the Department of Justice—a costly, time-consuming and inefficient way to enforce the law. The authors call for rescinding the Biden administration’s new Title IX regulations that strengthen protections against sexual harassment and assault in schools. Instead, it would reinstitute the Trump administration’s regulations that provided extraordinary “due process” rights to those accused of sexual harassment and assault while requiring victims to submit to cross-examination by the accused.
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Part three will tackle the right-wing vision to “rip and shred” the federal government and U.S. democracy as we know it. Read the entire series here (https://msmagazine.com/tag/misogynist-manifesto-series/) .
https://msmagazine.com/2024/09/10/project-2025-education-women-students-work/