While federal anti-employment discrimination laws have helped diminish inequality at work, discrimination persists, in part perhaps due to unequal handling of equal employment lawsuits. Prior research demonstrates that the definition of discrimination can vary based on local normative ideas, while another line shows that a judge's race or gender can shape how related lawsuits are handled. In this article, I draw on a set of EEOC workplace discrimination cases prosecuted in Federal Court and combine it with locality data, to analyze: (1) the impact of local context, specifically rurality, local political context, and southerness and; (2) how judges' race and gender interact with the local cultural-milieu. Findings reveal that plaintiffs of colour in race discrimination cases fair worse in rural courts or before white judges. Meanwhile, white judges in conservative areas are more defendant friendly than those outside the in more liberal areas. Black judges, in comparison, are more plaintiff friendly in conservative areas when compared to black judges in more liberal areas. While female judges are generally more plaintiff friendly than male judges in sex cases, location has no discernible effect.

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种族、性别和地点：司法身份和当地环境如何塑造反歧视决定

虽然联邦反就业歧视法有助于减少工作中的不平等，但歧视仍然存在，部分原因可能是对平等就业诉讼的处理不公平。先前的研究表明，歧视的定义可能会因当地的规范观念而异，而另一条线表明，法官的种族或性别会影响相关诉讼的处理方式。在本文中，我借鉴了在联邦法院起诉的一组 EEOC 工作场所歧视案件，并结合当地数据，分析：（1）当地环境的影响，特别是农村、当地政治环境和南方人；以及；(2) 法官的种族和性别如何与当地文化环境相互作用。调查结果表明，种族歧视案件中的有色人种原告在农村法院或白人法官面前表现得更差。同时，保守地区的白人法官比自由地区以外的法官对被告更友好。相比之下，与更自由地区的黑人法官相比，黑人法官在保守地区对原告更友好。虽然在性案件中，女性法官通常比男性法官对原告更友好，但地点并没有明显的影响。