Equal: Women Reshape American Law

by Fred Strebeigh

Book Overview

As late as 1967, men outnumbered women twenty to one in American law schools. With the loss of deferments from Vietnam, reluctant law schools began admitting 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 by employers against pregnant women. Courts viewed sexual harassment as, one judge said, "a game...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393065553
• ISBN13: 9780393065558
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 594 Pages
• Weight: 2.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.1"