What Does the Law Say?

So what does the law actually say?

Here's how the portion of Title 7, which applies to employment discrimination, reads:

It shall be unlawful employment practice for an employer:

to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex or national origin, or
to limit, segregate, or classify employees or applicants for employment in any way which would deprive or tend to deprive any individual of employment opportunities or otherwise adversely affect an employee because of such individual's race, color, sex or national origin.