Go to this text’s Web site at www.cengage.com/

blaw/clarkson and select “Chapter 35.” Click on

“Video Questions” and view the video titled Mary Tyler Moore. Then answer the following questions.

(a) In the video, Mr. Grant (Ed Asner) asks Mary (Mary Tyler Moore) some personal questions during a job interview, including why she is not married and what religion she practices. He also tells her that he “fi gured he’d hire a man.” Can Mary make out a prima facie case of gender or religious discrimination based on these questions? Why or why not?

(b) Can Mary prove a prima facie case of age discrimination because Mr. Grant asked her age during the interview and then implied that she was “hedging”
about her age? What would she need to prove under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act?

(c) How does the fact that Mr. Grant hired Mary as an associate producer affect her ability to establish a case of employment discrimination?

(d) Mr. Grant says that he will hire Mary to see if it works out but fi re her if he does not like her or if she does not like him at the end of this trial period.
Can he do that? Explain. If he fi red Mary a few weeks later, would this affect Mary’s ability to sue for employment discrimination? Why or why not?