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Full-Text Articles in Law
Gender Law, Katharine T. Bartlett
Gender Law, Katharine T. Bartlett
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
The inauguration of the DUKE JOURNAL OF GENDER LAW & POLICY represents an exciting step in the institutionalization of a subject area in academic law formerly found only at the fringe of legal scholarship and law school curriculums. Often shunned as a political activity inappropriate to institutions committed to academic rigor, objectivity, and neutrality, gender law has begun to lay down roots as a disciplined set of inquiries that enhance the rigor of conventional legal study and offer tools for improving the objectivity and neutrality of law, even as it challenges the conventional meanings of those concepts. There are two …
The Criminal Justice System: Towards The 21st Century, Janet Reno
The Criminal Justice System: Towards The 21st Century, Janet Reno
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
On January 22, 1994, Duke University was honored to have United States Attorney General Janet Reno visit our campus to deliver the Keynote Address for the Fifth Annual Frontiers of Legal Thought Conference. Every year, Duke Law School students organize and conduct this conference, addressing current legal and societal issues of interest to our students. This year's conference addressed "The Criminal Justice System: Towards the 21st Century." Attorney General Reno's speech stressed the need for interdisciplinary solutions to the criminal and social problems facing our country today. The Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy hopes to foster the sort …
An Open Letter From One Black Scholar To Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Or, How Not To Become Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Jerome Mccristal Culp Jr.
An Open Letter From One Black Scholar To Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Or, How Not To Become Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Jerome Mccristal Culp Jr.
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
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Race And Gender Discrimination: A Historical Case For Equal Treatment Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Sandra L. Rierson
Race And Gender Discrimination: A Historical Case For Equal Treatment Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Sandra L. Rierson
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens, but we, the whole people, who formed this Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people--women as well as men. --Susan B. Anthony 1 Under the common law of both England and the United States, a married woman enjoyed a legal status only slightly better than that of a slave. Until the mid-nineteenth century, in no state could …
A New Approach For Gay And Lesbian Domestic Partners: Legal Acceptance Through Relational Property Theory, Hara Jacobs
A New Approach For Gay And Lesbian Domestic Partners: Legal Acceptance Through Relational Property Theory, Hara Jacobs
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
In the past twenty years, the number of couples living together on a long-term basis without marrying has dramatically increased. 1 With the increase in domestic partnerships 2 has come new litigation in which one scorned domestic partner sues the other, claiming a right to property procured during the relationship. Often, one partner brought more present or future financial resources to the relationship than the other. The wealthier partner may have placed some or all of the property acquired during the relationship in her name only for a variety of seemingly innocuous reasons (e.g., business expertise, tax benefits, facilitation of …
Are Women Worth As Much As Men?: Employment Inequities, Gender Roles, And Public Policy, Kathryn Branch
Are Women Worth As Much As Men?: Employment Inequities, Gender Roles, And Public Policy, Kathryn Branch
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
Gender inequities in employment are apparent in many different contexts and have numerous components. The most quantifiable measure is a comparison between the relative earnings of men and women. A related measure is the distribution by gender across occupational lines and the average relative salaries of jobs that tend to be predominantly occupied by workers of one gender. All available statistics show that men earn significantly more than women. 1 This remains true no matter what year the figures are from, or whether they are weighted according to age, labor force status, or educational attainment. 2 If financial compensation for …
Pay Equity And Women’S Wage Increases: Success In The States, A Model For The Nation, Heidi I. Hartmann, Stephanie Aaronson
Pay Equity And Women’S Wage Increases: Success In The States, A Model For The Nation, Heidi I. Hartmann, Stephanie Aaronson
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
By 1989, twenty states had implemented programs to raise the wages of workers in female-dominated job classes in their state civil services. A study of these pay equity programs, conducted by the Institute for Women's Policy Research and the Urban Institute, found that all twenty states were successful in closing the female/male wage gap without substantial negative side effects such as increased unemployment. The extent to which the states succeeded depended on many factors including how much money was spent, the proportion of women affected, and the standard to which female wages were raised. As women's responsibilities for their families' …
From Betrayal To Power, Elizabeth Debold, Marie Wilson, Idelisse Malave
From Betrayal To Power, Elizabeth Debold, Marie Wilson, Idelisse Malave
Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy
Resistance is the secret of joy! --Alice Walker Possessing the Secret of Joy What does it mean to love a daughter in a culture that is hostile to her integrity? In a culture where power equals dominance and superiority, men's control of public life--the world of political and economic power that shapes the desires of private life--places mothers in a double bind as their daughters approach womanhood. The common ways that mothers have of guiding daughters--what we call "the paths of least resistance" in chapter two 1 --ask girls to make deep psychological sacrifices to straddle the cultural division of …