Rights and Wrongs

Women's Struggle for Legal Equality

Author: Susan Cary Nicholas
Secondary Author: Alice M. Price
ISBN: 9780935312423

   This valuable guide to women and the law offers a concise view of U.S. law as it has affected women's constitutional rights, their position in marriage, their oppurtunities in employment, and their control over their bodies. This new edition outlines advances and setbacks in the legal status of women with discussion of current events and issues including the failure of passage of the ERA and its subsequent reintroduction into Congress, the alarming rise in reported incidents of sexual harrasment and domestic violence, court decisions in cases of sex-based discrimination and affirmative action, increases awareness of the growing number of female poor, and the new concept of equal pay for work of comparable worth.

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Publish Date: 1986

Subjects: History / General, History / United States / 20th Century, Law / Civil Procedure, Law / Gender & the Law, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Law)