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Gender Discrimination And The Transformation Of Workplace Norms, Kathryn Abrams

Vanderbilt Law Review

Lately when I talk about gender, I am often confronted with the message that women's equality has already been achieved. A colleague may provide this insight, or a complete stranger waiting in a grocery line. But the thought was most succinctly expressed by a student who grew impatient with my activism. "I don't understand," she declared."Women have gotten just about everything they wanted. Don't they see that the time for militancy is over?" Perhaps this response should come as no surprise. The battle for the Equal Rights Amendment has been lost, but in salient ways our society seems to have …