Elusive Equality: Women's Rights, Public Policy, and the Law

Front Cover
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003 - 319 pages
All men may be created equal in the United States - but more than 30 years after Congress proposed the Equal Rights Amendment, can the same be said for women? Elusive Equality offers a clear understanding of how government institutions - the executive branch, Congress, and state legislatures, as well as the federal courts - affect the legal status of women. Surveying the judicial and public policy issues central to the identification - and protection - of women's rights, Susan Mezey traces the developing legal parameters of gender equality. From early court rulings that prohibited employment discrimination and sexual harassment through today's decisions on reproductive rights and same-sex relationships, Mezey analyzes the broader political context within which critical judicial decisions have been made.
 

Contents

Seeking Constitutional Parity
5
Achieving Educational Equity 39 669
39
Securing Workplace Equality
73
Fighting for Pay Equity
105
Battling Sexual Harassment
129
Striving for Equality in Professional Life
157
Accommodating Work and Family
185
Securing Reproductive Rights
221
Retaining Reproductive Rights
247
Elusive Equality
283
Bibliography
289
Index of Cases
303
Index
311
About the Book 319
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

Bibliographic information