sex discrimination

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The good girls revolt

how the women of Newsweek sued their bosses and changed the workplace
2012
Examines the women's revolt of the 1960s at Newsweek magazine and its impact on the feminist movement.

The sexual paradox

men, women and the real gender gap
2008
Examines the learning and behavioral gaps between boys and girls in the classroom and how those roles are often reversed in the workplace.

Supreme Court decisions and women's rights

milestones to equality
2011
Examines over seventy-five cases in which the Supreme Court has reviewed laws based on gender distinction, looking at rulings affecting women in a broad range of areas including employment, abortion, maternity leave, military service, and others; and includes profiles of plaintiffs.

Equal

women reshape American law
2009
Chronicles the history of America's leading women's rights cases, revealing the individuals who struggled for equality.

Supreme Court decisions and women's rights

milestones to equality
2001
Examines over seventy-five cases in which the Supreme Court has reviewed laws based on gender distinction, looking at rulings affecting women in a broad range of areas including employment, abortion, maternity leave, military service, and others; and includes profiles of plaintiffs.

Women at war

gender issues of Americans in combat
1999
A history and analysis of women in official combat roles, covering a period that ranges from ancient Greece to the post-Gulf War era, tracing the evolution of women's participation in war and combat, and discussing the involvement of law and policy in the position of women in the military.

Sexual harassment in America

a documentary history
1999
Presents over ninety documents that provide insight into the political and social aspects of sexual harassment, each accompanied by an explanatory introduction.

Work matters

women talk about their jobs and their lives
1996
Presents the stories of sixty-five women from interviews taken over the course of five years that detail the conflicts of women in the working world, representing women on all rungs of the ladder of success.

Gender equality

2006
Traces the development of the concept of gender equality, in simple text with illustrations, from its earliest beginnings in the Age of Enlightenment to the twenty-first century, including first-hand accounts of the people and events that change history.

Gender issues

1997
Shows how gender affects every aspect of one's life, that most societies discriminate against women, and that gender roles are changing.

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