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Human Rights Law

1999

Florida A&M University College of Law

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Women In The New Millennium: The Promises Of The Past Are Now The Problems For The Millennium, Lundy Langston Jan 1999

Women In The New Millennium: The Promises Of The Past Are Now The Problems For The Millennium, Lundy Langston

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In this Article, I will explore the roles of women and the expectations that society maintains for them in the past and the expectations for the present and future. As we enter the millennium, the courts appear to administer the law in the same way as laws were administered prior to the women's rights movement. Judges appear to implement notions of equal rights while society attaches the notions of the "difference group" without any special treatment for the dual roles. Something interesting appears to be happening to the dual roles of women. There is one standard stating that women must …