San Antonio College Library

Eleven contributed chapters relate the Court's evolution in cases regarding the application of its "Equal Justice Under Law" motto to women. Includes a foreword by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, b & w photos of legal pioneers, and a glossary of legal terms. Co- published with the Supreme Court Historical Society. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.

Focuses on women in the workplace, sexual harassment, and issues raised during the 1992 presidential campaign.

In the 1960s, Lois Kathryn Herr left her job as a seventh-grade English teacher and entered the ranks of AT & T, where in unprecedented ways she helped awaken the corporate giant to its injustices against women. What she and others accomplished by the early seventies would raise the standard of treatment of women in corporations throughout the United States. Yet in the beginning, Herr knew little of the burgeoning women's movement. Here she tells...

"Rivers exposes the many ways news media distort stories about women. According to Rivers, theses stories "sell" because they play to the fears of affluent women, one of the most desirable consumer markets. River's topics, literally "pulled from the headlines," include negative representations of working mothers and "latch-key" kids, stories that exaggerate the perils of childcare and divorce, media treatments of powerful political figures like Elizabeth...

American women have begun cropping up in unlikely places - in the conservative reaches of politics and at the helm of the National Rifle Association, in extremist militia groups and on the talk shows of the most virulent antiliberal, and antifeminist, radio hosts in the nation. Despite feminist predictions that women's liberation would forge a national sisterhood dancing to a liberal beat, women in growing numbers are declaring themselves to be strong,...

Constituting fewer than 15% of the nation's police officers, women have found it especially difficult to rise through the ranks and achieve higher posts. Here, those few women who have made it to the top -- about 1% of the chiefs and sheriffs in American policing -- share their stories and describe the challenges they faced as they rose to their positions. Each of the chiefs competed for their offices with other candidates, almost always male. The...