Failing to protect: a historical analysis of The Employment Nondiscrimination Act

IF 1.9 3区 社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY
K. McNamara
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Abstract As of October 2019, it is legal for employers to fire a worker if they identify as LGBT. The Employment Nondiscrimination Act (ENDA) was a proposed bill that would have prohibited LGBT discrimination in the workplace, but continuously failed to be enacted by Congress. This paper explores ENDA’s tempestuous history by conducting a historical analysis of the bill, Congressional Records, and congressional hearings, to identify the factors which influenced ENDA’s outcome. The findings indicated support for historical contingency theory because the historical conditions affected (1) the capacity of LGBT groups to advance their interests, and (2) the state managers and their decision to enact ENDA. These findings are important because it offers a clearer history of LGBT politics and shows how cultural attitudes, state policies, and state actors influenced ENDA’s policy formation process. Specifically, the analysis highlights that the historical conditions of the years when ENDA was proposed affected its failure to be enacted.
未能保护:《就业不歧视法》的历史分析
摘要自2019年10月起,雇主解雇认定为LGBT的员工是合法的。《就业非歧视法》(ENDA)是一项拟议法案,本应禁止工作场所的LGBT歧视,但国会一直未能颁布。本文通过对法案、国会记录和国会听证会进行历史分析,探讨了ENDA的动荡历史,以确定影响ENDA结果的因素。研究结果表明支持历史偶然性理论,因为历史条件影响了(1)LGBT群体促进其利益的能力,以及(2)国家管理者及其制定ENDA的决定。这些发现很重要,因为它提供了LGBT政治的更清晰历史,并显示了文化态度、国家政策和国家行为者如何影响ENDA的政策形成过程。具体而言,分析强调,ENDA提出年份的历史条件影响了其未能颁布。
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期刊介绍: Sociological Spectrum publishes papers on theoretical, methodological, quantitative and qualitative research, and applied research in areas of sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and political science.
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