Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant of South Miami Beach, Florida, had a reputation for hiring only male waiters.
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Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant of South Miami Beach, Florida, had a reputation for hiring only male waiters. Women did not apply for waitstaff positions there because of this reputation for discrimination. In the five years before the EEOC brought suit against it, Joe's hired 108 male waiters and 0 females. After the suit was filed, female applicants composed 22 percent of the applicant pool and received 21 percent of the waitstaff jobs. In deciding the case dealing with the five-year period preceding the lawsuit, the district court looked at the workforce statistics and the radical workforce imbalance between the number of males hired (108) and the number of females hired (0) along with the statistical availability of qualified women in the labor market. Was Joe's Restaurant guilty of disparate impact discrimination based on the statistical disparities? How would you decide this case? [EEOC v. Joe's Stone Crab, Inc., 220 F.3d 1263 (11th Cir)].
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