Justice and Gender: Sex Discrimination and the Law

by Deborah L. Rhode

Looks at how cultural perceptions of gender influence the law, discusses the equal rights amendment, and covers maternity leave, divorce, child custody, and gay rights

440 pages, Hardcover

First published November 27, 1989

Reviews

[Dr.J.G. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Usually people do not stop to reflect if the law has been inequitable, especially in the western - developed or rich - nations, especially past the slavery era. It is assumed that once slavery was dispensed with equality was a given as was liberty and opportunity. Far from true, and it is rarely either obvious or noticed if the law is dealing with all citizens as equal.

Across the gender gap this is all the more so, and this book for one is a good beginning to acquaint oneself with facts as they are, as they have been.