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  In establishing that 'gender played a motivating part in an employment decision,' a plaintiff in a Title VII case may introduce evidence that the employment decision was made in part because of a sex stereotype. Id. at 250-51. According to the Court, this is because 'we are beyond the day when an employer could evaluate employees by assuming or insisting that they matched the stereotype associated with their group, for 'in forbidding employers to discriminate against individuals because of their sex, Congress intended to strike at the entire spectrum of disparate treatment of men and women resulting from sex stereotypes.''