3 Mary applied to be a firefighter with the city fire depart

3. Mary applied to be a firefighter with the city fire department. Her application was refused because the city had a policy of only hiring males as firefighters. This type of discrimination is _______. A.Pretext B. Facially discriminatory C. discriminatory impact D. All of the above

4 The city fire department required that all applicants for firefighter be able to drag fire hose up three flights of stairs at a training/test facility, then use the hose to put out a fire and then carry a dummy weighing the same as an average human male down to the fire truck, all in less than five minutes. Which of the following is most correct? A. If no women pass the test, but 75% of the men do, this hiring test is illegal. B. If the fire department can prove that the test accurately measures whether the applicant can do a task that is an important job related necessity, then it can continue using the test even if no women have passed the test. C. Neither of the above are true statements D. Both of the above are true statements

Solution

I would say the answer to question 3 is D. all of the above because of the following definistions of the three available options:

A. Pretext : a reason given in justification of a course of action that is not the real reason.

B. A term associated with legislation that contains explicit categorization, like sex or race, in its text for identifying the persons to which the legislation applies.

C. discriminatory impact : In United States anti-discrimination law, the theory of disparate impact holds that practices in employment, housing, or other areas may be considered discriminatory and illegal if they have a disproportionate \"adverse impact\" on persons in a protected class. Although the protected classes vary by statute, most federal civil rights laws protect based on race, color, religion, national origin, and gender as protected traits, and some laws include disability status and other traits as well. Source : Wikipedia

Hence, it might be possible that there must be a feeling that female firefighters may not be able to live up to the expectations and requirements of the job which is a physically demanding and challengeing job for a male employee and hence true for a female employee too. Therefore, all the above points are a possibility.

4. Answer B: If the fire department can prove that the test accurately measures whether the applicant can do a task that is an important job related necessity, then it can continue using the test even if no women have passed the test.