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The Global Advancement Of Women: Barriers And Best Practices - Foreword, Paula A. Monopoli Sep 2008

The Global Advancement Of Women: Barriers And Best Practices - Foreword, Paula A. Monopoli

Paula A Monopoli

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The Global Advancement Of Women: Barriers And Best Practices - Foreword, Paula A. Monopoli Sep 2008

The Global Advancement Of Women: Barriers And Best Practices - Foreword, Paula A. Monopoli

Paula A Monopoli

No abstract provided.


Taming The Paper Tiger: A Comparative Approach To Reforming Japanese Gender Equality Laws, Kristina T. Geraghty Jul 2008

Taming The Paper Tiger: A Comparative Approach To Reforming Japanese Gender Equality Laws, Kristina T. Geraghty

Cornell International Law Journal

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The Third Wave: Young Feminists Find Common Ground With Those Who Came Before Them, Jane C. Murphy Mar 2008

The Third Wave: Young Feminists Find Common Ground With Those Who Came Before Them, Jane C. Murphy

All Faculty Scholarship

Reporting on recent research at Chicago-Kent Law School and supported by studies at other schools, a group of student panelists noted sharp differences in participation rates in class discussions and lower feelings of self-confidence among female students compared with their male counterparts.


Helping Out In The Family Firm: The Legal Treatment Of Unpaid Market Labor, Lisa Philipps Jan 2008

Helping Out In The Family Firm: The Legal Treatment Of Unpaid Market Labor, Lisa Philipps

Articles & Book Chapters

This article investigates the work of individuals who help out informally with a family member's job, often without pay. Examples include the relative who works in the back room of the family business, the executive spouse who hosts corporate functions, the political wife who campaigns with her husband, or the child who does chores on the family farm. The term "unpaid market labor" (UML) is used here to describe the ways that family members collaborate directly in paid activities that are legally and socially attributed to others. The practical legal problems that can arise in relation to UML are illustrated …


Loving Gender Balance: Reframing Identity-Based Inequality Remedies, Darren Rosenblum Jan 2008

Loving Gender Balance: Reframing Identity-Based Inequality Remedies, Darren Rosenblum

Fordham Law Review

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Fighting Women: The Military, Sex, And Extrajudicial Constitutional Change, Jill Elaine Hasday Jan 2008

Fighting Women: The Military, Sex, And Extrajudicial Constitutional Change, Jill Elaine Hasday

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Supreme Court in Rostker v. Goldberg (1981) upheld male-only military registration, and endorsed male-only conscription and combat positions. Few cases have challenged restrictions on women's military service since Rostker, and none have reached the Supreme Court. Federal statutes continue to exclude women from military registration and draft eligibility, and military regulations still ban women from some combat positions. Yet many aspects of women's legal status in the military have changed in striking respects over the past quarter century while academic attention has focused elsewhere. Congress has eliminated statutory combat exclusions, the military has opened many combat positions to women, …


Equality's Future: An Introduction, Victoria Nourse Jan 2008

Equality's Future: An Introduction, Victoria Nourse

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

We stand at an extraordinary moment: never before have so many powerful men wished to be women. For the first time in history, a massive number of male and female voters--18 million in fact--cast their ballots to nominate a woman, Senator Hillary Clinton, to be President of the United States. Disappointed at Senator Clinton's failure to win the Democratic Party's nomination, many women threatened to bolt the party. Sensing opportunity, the Republican Presidential candidate, Senator John McCain, promptly named as his vice-presidential running mate the first woman ever nominated by the Republican Party to a Presidential ticket. And, not to …