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4 Tex. J. Women & L. 171 (1995)
Privilege in the Workplace: The Missing Element in Antidiscrimination Law

handle is hein.journals/tjwl4 and id is 181 raw text is: Texas Journal of Women and the Law Volume 4 Articles PRIVILEGE IN THE WORKPLACE: THE MISSING ELEMENT IN ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW Stephanie M. Wildman* The workplace presents an example of how supposed neutrality in language, the very words we use to describe work and the location in which it occurs, masks systems of privilege. The invisibility of the operation of privilege in the workplace perpetuates the systemic nature of disadvantage. With Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, federal law aimed at ending workplace segregation by focusing on discrimination in employment. Antidiscrimination doctrine developed under this statute has ignored privilege, ensuring the replication of systems of subordination. The resulting denial of access to jobs and to promotions serves to maintain existing economic disparity that income would alleviate and serves to perpetuate systems of privilege. 01995 by Stephanie M. Wildman. Professor of Law, U.S.F. School of Law; VisitingProfessor 1994-95 Santa Clara Law School; J.D., Stanford Law School, 1973; A.B., Stanford University, 1970. I have appreciated conversations with Margalynne Armstrong, June Carbone, Adrienne Davis, Trina Grillo, Mack Player, Margaret Russell, Michael Tobriner, and Catharine Wells and outstanding research support from Janet Lee, Lee Ryan, and Marian Shostrom. Thanks also to the organizers and participants in the October, 1994, conference, Women in the Workplace: A Symposium, sponsored by the Texas Journal of Women and the Law, for which this essay was prepared. Another version of this essay will appear in STHANm M. WuLDMAN wrrH CONTMRBU7tONS BY MARGALYNNE ARMSTRONG, ADRPmNE D. DAvis, AND TRiNA GRILLO, PRPVILEGE REvEALED: How INvISmLE PREFERENCE UNDERMINES AMERICA (N.Y.U. Press, forthcoming 1996).

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