SEXIST JUSTICE: How Legal Sexism Affects You

by Karen DeCrow ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 15, 1973

Everybody knows morality can't be legislated -- but it wasn't goodness that made AT&T ante up several millions in back wages to its female employees (a landmark case under the Equal Pay Act). A political activist-attorney assesses, from a strictly feminist viewpoint but supported with legal facts, our system of courts and legislation, explains some of the enormous gains (Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which deals with the problem of opportunity) and the flagrant abuses (rape laws, credit, taxes, etc.). DeCrow turns in a seemingly irrefutable brief for the Equal Rights Amendment that handily answers the objections from unions, big daddies like Senator Sam Irvin, and from women who argue that enactment would take away the safeguards they now have under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. She proposes, instead, specific legislation to protect all workers. No doubt women will be fighting for their rights through the courts for a very long time -- and, as DeCrow depressingly concludes in this valuable book, until statutes, legislative interpretations, state constitutions, etc. are written by feminist men and women the ""weaker"" sex is legally likely to remain so.

Pub Date: Feb. 15, 1973

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Random House

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1973

Categories: NONFICTION