Which one of the following is the best example of a disparate treatment of discrimination?

Rotating the task among all project team members applies no differential treatment based on any protected characteristic.

Including both men and women in a rotation distributes the task equally across sexes, demonstrating no disparate treatment.

This choice explicitly assigns a specific task - keeping meeting minutes - to female team members based solely on their gender, which is a protected characteristic under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Singling out one sex for a duty constitutes disparate treatment because the decision is grounded in a protected class attribute rather than any job-related or neutral criterion.

Assigning the rotation based on job level (junior) uses a legitimate, job-related criterion unrelated to any protected class.