1. Explain fully the difference between disparate treatment and disparate impact. Give a clear example of both.
2. What is the difference between gender discrimination and sexual harassment? What are the types of sexual harassment? What elements are needed to prove that conduct dirercted to an individual has risen to the level of illegal harassment?
3. When employee Y asks his employer if the firm's health insurance benefits cover same sex-partners he is fired. Under what laws, if any, might Y have a legal claim? Discuss fully, including why he would lose or possibly win under each law considered.