Women and the Constitution

1983 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 23-23
Author(s):  
Joan Hoff-Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Sex Discrimination ◽  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
Rape Victims ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
Women Reformers ◽  
Nineteenth Amendment ◽  
Discrimination In Employment ◽  
Status Of Women

The seminar will explore the historical development surrounding changes in the legal status of women from the colonial period to the present. In addition to specialized readings in constitutional history, video cassettes which analyze aspects of modern case laws affecting contemporary American women will also comprise a segment of the instructional material. Particular attention will be paid to the historical circumstances prompting women reformers to place varying degrees of emphasis upon achieving equality through equity procedures, litigation, amendments to the Constitution and public policy legislation. Bibliographies and techniques for teaching major constitutional issues will be presented and discussed. Topics: equity jurisprudence, dower rights, married womens’ property acts, the Fourteenth Amendment, Supreme Court decisions involving working women, the Nineteenth Amendment, equal and comparable pay, national commissions on women, federal legislation prohibiting sex discrimination in employment and education, divorce and family law, constitutional views on contraception and abortion, the significance of the ERA, treatment of rape victims, sexual harassment on the job.

Women and the Constitution

1985 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 10-16
Author(s):  
Joan Hoff-Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Sex Discrimination ◽  
The United States ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Federal Constitution ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Status Of Women

Since the drafting of the federal Constitution in 1787, the legal status of women in the United States has passed through four distinct phases and is on the brink of entering a fifth one. In this two-hundred-year period, there has been more change in the last twenty years than in the previous onehundred- and-eighty. Yet, a decade and a half ago scholarly classes about women and the Constitution could not be taught because too little primary research had been conducted in either the new social history with its subfield of women or the latest version of the new legal history with its subfield of sex discrimination.Both subfields reflect the increased interest of historians and lawyers in interdisciplinary research techniques developed in this country and abroad since the 1960s.

“The Old Settlers Have Bred a Great Quantity of Slaves”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Paugh
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Legal Case ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Status Of Women

The prospect of legalizing Afro-Caribbean marriage in order to promote fertility raised troubling issues for abolitionist reformers. The previously obscure legal case of Mary Hylas illustrates the legal quagmire created by the uncertain legal status of women who were both married and enslaved. Mary was an enslaved Afro-Barbadian woman who traveled to England with her mistress; while there, she married an Afro-Caribbean man. After her return to Barbados, Mary’s husband sued for her return on the basis that, as her husband, he had greater claim to her person than her master. This case, and the closely related Somerset case, resulted in a legal fracas in which abolitionist and pro-planter lawyers each struggled to define the relationship between marriage and slavery. Mary’s story thus allows us to think more deeply about the world of problems that British reformers faced as they contemplated promoting fertility among the enslaved by encouraging Christian marriage.

Man and Wife

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilkie Collins
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Wilkie Collins ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Country House ◽  
Radical Critique ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Marriage Laws ◽  
Woman In White ◽  
The Moonstone ◽  
Status Of Women

This time the fiction is founded upon facts' stated Wilkie Collins in his Preface to Man and Wife (1870). Many Victorian writers responded to contemporary debates on the rights and the legal status of women, and here Collins questions the deeply inequitable marriage laws of his day. Man and Wife examines the plight of a woman who, promised marriage by one man, comes to believe that she may inadvertently have gone through a form of marriage with his friend, as recognized by the archaic laws of Scotland and Ireland. From this starting-point Collins develops a radical critique of the values and conventions of Victorian society. Collins had already developed a reputation as the master of the 'sensation novel', and Man and Wife is as fast moving and unpredictable as The Moonstone and The Woman in White. During the novel the atmosphere grows increasingly sinister as the setting moves from a country house to a London suburb and a world of confinement, plotting, and murder.

Sex Discrimination and the Transformation of U.S. Education

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin E. Buzuvis
Keyword(s):  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Sex Discrimination ◽  
Sexual Misconduct ◽  
Fourteenth Amendment ◽  
Equal Protection Clause ◽  
Lgbt Students ◽  
Societal Norms ◽  
Sex Equality ◽  
Equality In Education

This chapter highlights the role of Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 and the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment in transforming the gendered landscape of U.S. education. After first providing an overview of these two sources of law, the chapter examines the role they have played in challenging sex-based designations in admissions and in the classroom, in promoting equal opportunity and access to school-sponsored athletics, in challenging sexual harassment and other sexual misconduct, in reducing barriers to LGBT students, and in promoting equal opportunity for students who are pregnant. Sections addressing each one of these topics will also note limitations and shortcomings of the law’s approach to these issues, as there is still more work to do to fully realize sex equality in education. While the law has not cured all the problems of sex discrimination education, owing to limitations in its scope, as well as enforceability, it has proven to be a powerful source of societal norms and expectations, which themselves operate to motivate compliance and beyond.

Sexual Harassment of Working Women: A Case of Sex Discrimination

1980 ◽  
Vol 80 (8) ◽  
pp. 1686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Taub ◽  
Catherine A. MacKinnon
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Working Women ◽  
Sex Discrimination

scholarly journals Race and Sex Discrimination in Employment in Canada. Theories, Evidence and Policies

2005 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 344-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harish C. Jain
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Sex Discrimination ◽  
Discrimination In Employment

After having examined three theoritical approaches, the author presents public policy relating to race and sex discrimination in employment and analyzes 74 cases decided by the boards of enquiry and courts.

scholarly journals Female Education in Nigeria: A Key to Development in ESAN North East Local Government Area, Edo State, Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Ebhomienlen, T. O. ◽  
Aitufe V. O
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Sex Discrimination ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
Female Education ◽  
North East ◽  
The Social ◽  
Phenomenological Methodology ◽  
Edo State ◽  
Status Of Women

This essay portrays Female Education in Nigeria as a key to Development in Esan North East Local Government Area, Edo State. The need to break the barrier of sex discrimination at the crucial time that Nigeria needs all round development is more appealing. The female folks are supposed to be co – pilots of the wheel of progress. It is evident in Esan North East Local Government Area that the traditional view of women has not drastically changed. Most women are still into petty business, like trading, farming, menial fashion making, hair making and so on. The new wind of change that is blowing in some parts of Nigeria has not sufficiently reflected in the area of this study. This study therefore, aims at encouraging females themselves and their parents to change their past view on education and respond positively on female education campaign initiates. To achieve the objectives of this essay the researcher adopts the historical, analytical and phenomenological methodology. It discovers that the training of girls/ women will enhance the social, political and economic status of women themselves and the society at large and this will form the bedrock for holistic development.

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