Laura applies for the job of a firefighter.She is 5 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 110 pounds.Laura is denied the position because she does not meet the height and weight requirements.The fire department's height and weight requirements are:

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The fire department's height and weight requirements are discriminatory if it can be shown that the requirements are not directly correlated to ability to do the job. In Dothard v. Rawlinson, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did apply to facially neutral policies when they screened out women at an unacceptable rate and were not shown to be directly correlated to ability to do the job.

Laura Applies for the Job of a Firefighter