Equal Women Reshape American Law

Name: Equal Women Reshape American Law
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ISBN: 9780393065558

ISBN-10: 0393065553

ISBN-13: 9780393065558

Edition: 2009

Authors: Fred Strebeigh, F. Strebeigh

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The dramatic, untold story of how women battled blatant inequities in America's legal system. As late as 1967, men outnumbered women twenty to one in American law schools. With the loss of deferments from Vietnam, law schools admitted women to avoid plummeting enrollments. As women entered, the law resisted. Judges would not hire women. Law firms asserted a right to discriminate against women. Judges permitted discrimination against pregnant women. Courts viewed sexual harassment as, one judge said, "a game played by the male superiors." Against the odds, women fought to reshape the law. Fred Strebeigh has interviewed litigators, plaintiffs, and judges, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and…

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List price: $62.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/13/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 594
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.60" long x 1.70" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Fred Strebeigh has written for The Atlantic, Smithsonian, and the New York Times Magazine. He teaches nonfiction writing at Yale University and lives in New Haven, Connecticut.



Prologue: Toward Equality (1968)



Scrutiny (1970-1975)



The Story of Paula Wiesenfeld



Old Law Meets a New Case-Reed



Frontiero Brings Hopes



Wiesenfeld Brings Reality



Pregnancy (1972-1978)



What Happened to Sally Armendariz Could Not Happen to a Man



The First Pregnancy Case: Aiello



The Second Pregnancy Case: General Electric



The Final Pregnancy Battle: Beyond the Supreme Court



Lawyering (1968-1984)



A Problem in the Profession



Taking Action



A Young Woman Takes an Old Wall Street Firm to Court



Time to Settle



The Chief Justice's Second Draft



Harassment (1974-1986)



No Law



Naming Sexual Harassment



Women and the Law



Mechelle Vinson Goes to Trial



Appeal to a Higher Court



To the Supreme Court



At the Supreme Court



Violence (1990-2000)



A Challenge for a Young Lawyer



Using Civil Rights to Combat Violence



Judges Strike Back



Seeking Equal Judicial Firepower



Women Judges to the Rescue



Reckoning at the Supreme Court


Postscript: Toward Equality (Twenty-first Century)


Acknowledgments


Notes


Credits


Index