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Can We Use Gender in Our Hiring Decisions? The Discrimination Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ) Applied to Health Care

March 13, 2007

Can We Use Gender in Our Hiring Decisions? The Discrimination Bona Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ) Applied to Health Care

March 13, 2007

Authored By

Christine Liu McLaughlin

Christine L. McLaughlin

The Wall Street Journal always offers thought-provoking articles, but one article titled “Companies that Mirror Their Consumers Can Gain a Competitive Advantage” was especially intriguing. April 11, 2006, at B11. Is that general premise true in the field of health care? Amazingly, the marketplace has found a niche for matching patients with physicians and other providers of the same race.

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