Women's rights : documents decoded / Aimee D. Shouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shouse, Aimee D.

Series:

Documents decoded.

Documents decoded

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's rights--United States.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 195 pages).

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Taking a broad view of the ongoing efforts to attain rights for women, this work provides unique insight into the context of the issues and reveals the range of factors that can influence a particular policy decision.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; CHAPTER 1: WOMEN AND WORK; The U.S. Supreme Court Limits Women's Employment Rights; Supreme Court Ruling in Muller v. Oregon: 1908; Women's Rights Advocates Lobby for a Women's Bureau; Testimony from the Women's Bureau Hearings before the Joint Committees on Labor: March 4, 1920; Kennedy Signs the Equal Pay Act; President John F. Kennedy's Remarks upon Signing the Equal Pay Act: June 10, 1963; Congress Debates Sex Discrimination Provisions in the Civil Rights Act

Statements Supporting and Opposing an Amendment to Prohibit Sexual Discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: February 8, 1964Johnson and Nondiscrimination in Government Employment; Text of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Executive Order 11246: September 24, 1965; Johnson Bans Sex Discrimination in Federal Hiring Policies; Text of President Lyndon B. Johnson's Executive Order 11375: October 13, 1967; The U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Gender-Based Fetal Protection Policies; Supreme Court Ruling in United Automobile Workers v. Johnson Controls: 1991

Anita Hill Testifies against Clarence ThomasTestimony at Senate Hearings for Supreme Court Nominee Clarence Thomas: October 11, 1991; Clinton Signs the Family and Medical Leave Act; President Bill Clinton's Remarks upon Signing the Family and Medical Leave Act: February 5, 1993; CHAPTER 2: WOMEN AND EDUCATION; The U.S. Supreme Court Sanctions Sex Discrimination in American Society; Justice Joseph P. Bradley's Concurrent Opinion in Bradwell v. State of Illinois: 1872; A Scholar Studies the Impact of Higher Education on Women; John Dewey's "Education and the Health of Women": 1885

A Congresswoman's Statement on Sex Discrimination in Colleges and UniversitiesRepresentative Edith Green's Statement at House "Discrimination against Women" Subcommittee Hearings: June 17, 1970; The U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies the Reach of Title IX; Supreme Court Ruling in Grove City College v. Bell: 1984; The U.S. Supreme Court Opens VMI to Women; Supreme Court Ruling in United States v. Virginia et al.: 1996; A Circuit Court Rules on Proportionality in Intercollegiate Sports; Ninth Circuit Court Ruling in Neal v. Board of Trustees of California State Universities: 1999

CHAPTER 3: WOMEN AND POLITICSEarly Activists Issue a Call for Women's Rights; Seneca Falls Convention "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions": July 19-20, 1848; Women's Rights Leaders Champion Universal Voting Rights; Proceedings of the First Anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association: May 9-10, 1867; A Congresswoman Expresses Support for a Federal Suffrage Amendment; Statement of Representative Jeannette Rankin: May 19, 1917; Gloria Steinem Speaks Out for an Equal Rights Amendment; Hearings before a Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments: May 6, 1970

The U.S. Supreme Court Ends Gender-Based Exemptions for Jury Duty

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798216037996

9781610691994

1610691997

OCLC:

871190802