re sponsibility for family caretaking often falls on women, and such responsibility affects the working lives of women more than it affects the working lives of men; and (6) employment standards that apply to one gender only have serious potential for encouraging employers to discriminate against employees and applicants for employment who are of that gender.” Consistent with its concern about inequality in the work place, Congress explained that the purpose of the FMLA is to achieve a balance between the needs of families and the needs of the workplace “in a manner that, consistent with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, minimizes the potential for employment discrimination on the basis of sex by ensuring generally that leave is available for elig . at 2671 (<HOLDING>). Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer is illustrative of the
holding title vii abrogates the eleventh amendment because it is based in fourteenth amendment which limits state authority in other ways as well holding that in enacting title vii congress abrogated eleventh amendment immunity holding that the retaliation provision of title vii is an adequate exercise of congress authority under section 5 of the fourteenth amendment holding the fourteenth amendment partially abrogated eleventh amendment sovereign immunity holding that in civil actions invoking title vii state defendants lack eleventh amendment protection