Elusive Equality: Women's Rights, Public Policy, and the LawLynne 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 |
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About the Book 319 | |
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Elusive Equality: Women's Rights, Public Policy, and the Law Susan Gluck Mezey No preview available - 2003 |
Elusive Equality: Women's Rights, Public Policy, and the Law Susan Gluck Mezey No preview available - 2011 |
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