Many of the world's most ground-breaking inventions came out of Renaissance Europe. The years between the late 14th and early 17th centuries were characterised by imagination, experimentation and change in the schools of science, design and engineering.
at 79-80. Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins, 490 U.S. 228 (1989). The Supreme Court recognized that employment discrimination based on sex stereotypes (e.g., assumptions and/or expectations about how persons of a certain sex should dress, behave, etc.) is unlawful sex discrimination under Title VII.
However, in the Sweatt v. Painter case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the separate school established for blacks lacked substantive equality for a number of reasons, including the fact that the school had fewer faculty members and an inferior law library and other facilities.