Tia's tamale factory employs 50 workers to make and ship food products all over the United States. The factory is located in a county where 60 percent of the residents are identified as people belonging to a protected class. Tia must hire an additional supervisor and despite her best efforts, she gets only three applicants: Conchita, a 35-year-old female; Sancho, a 17-year-old male belonging to the protected class; and Maureen, a 48-year-old disabled woman.
Refer to Scenario 2.1. Tia's workers are mostly women. If Tia believes that only a woman could fit in at the factory and eliminates Sancho's application, it will most likely be:
permissible because most of the local residents belong to the protected class.
a case of disparate impact under the Civil Rights Act.
a discrimination on the basis of age in violation of the Age Discrimination and Employment Act.
permissible because Tia is a private employer.
a discrimination on the basis of gender in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.