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Megan Veith The Continuing Gender-health Divide: a Discussion of Free Choice, Gender Discrimination, and Gender Theory as Applied to the Affordable Care Act 21 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 341 (Spring, 2014) Men and women are historically, socially, and biologically different from each other. Therefore, they utilize different health care services from each other, or similar services, but in different ways. With so much gender variation, measuring equality in the current health care system is a difficult task. However, for gender equality to exist in...; Search Snippet: ...On Poverty Law and Policy Spring, 2014 Note the Continuing Gender-health Divide: a Discussion of Free Choice, Gender Discrimination, and Gender Theory as Applied to the Affordable Care Act Megan Veith... 2014  
Gwendolyn Griffith , Partner, Tonkon Torp LLP The Evolution of Women's Wealth: Implications for Wealth Planners 2014 Aspatore 4160088 (July, 2014) This book is about the transmission of wealth during life and at death. Most of its chapters focus on techniques for meeting clients' goals in wealth transmission, including providing for loved ones, minimizing federal and state taxes, and structuring trusts and other vehicles to preserve wealth. These chapters assume that a client has accumulated...; Search Snippet: ...And Understanding its Impact on Estate Plans the Evolution of Women's Wealth: Implications for Wealth Planners Gwendolyn Griffith [Fna1] Partner Tonkon... 2014  
Wendy A. Bach The Hyperregulatory State: Women, Race, Poverty, and Support 25 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 317 (2014) Introduction. 318 I. The Failures of Liberal Theory and the Idea of the Supportive State. 320 A. The Autonomous Subject and the Vulnerable Subject. 322 B. Towards a More Responsive State. 326 II. Hyperregulation and Poverty. 329 A. A Bit of Social Welfare History. 330 B. Privacy Deprivation and Criminalization as the Price of Support. 331 C. From...; Search Snippet: ...Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 2014 Article the Hyperregulatory State: Women, Race, Poverty, and Support Wendy A. Bach [Fna1] Copyright ©... 2014  
Jamie R. Abrams The Illusion of Autonomy in Women's Medical Decision-making 42 Florida State University Law Review 17 (Fall, 2014) This Article considers why there is not more conflict between women and their doctors in obstetric decision-making. While patients in every other medical context have complete autonomy to refuse treatment against medical advice, elect high-risk courses of action, and prioritize their own interests above any other decision-making metric, childbirth...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Fall, 2014 Article the Illusion of Autonomy in Women's Medical Decision-making Jamie R. Abrams [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014... 2014  
Romonda D. Belcher The Importance of Women and the Judiciary 17 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 421 (Summer 2014) My journey to the bench began in Plymouth, North Carolina, a small town on the east coast, population less than 4,000. As a young child I can remember being the only little black girl at my classmates' birthday parties. I don't know if I was the only black child invited or if I was the only one who showed up. At the time, I am not sure if I even...; Search Snippet: ...Race and Justice Summer 2014 Judicial Essays the Importance of Women and the Judiciary Honorable Romonda D. Belcher Copyright (C) 2014... 2014 African/Black American
Barbara A. Noah The Inclusion of Pregnant Women in Clinical Research 7 Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy 353 (2014) In the past three decades, there has been unprecedented growth in medical research utilizing human subjects, with much promise for new treatments that extend life, improve quality of life, and prevent disease and disability. Safe prescribing of drug therapies requires that researchers design clinical trials to test products for the benefit of all...; Search Snippet: ...Law: Exemplary Insight into Trending Topics the Inclusion of Pregnant Women in Clinical Research Barbara A. Noah [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014... 2014  
Samuel Vincent Jones The Invisible Women: Have Conceptions about Femininity Led to the Global Dominance of the Female Human Trafficker? 7 Albany Government Law Review 143 (2014) Introduction. 144 I. Female Victim-Male Culprit Reasoning Precludes Proper Detection of Female Traffickers. 148 A. Conceptions About Female Autonomy, Violence, and Aggression. 150 B. How Female Victim-Male Culprit Reasoning Influenced the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA). 155 II. The Female Human Trafficker Revealed. 156 A. Highly Capable...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Albany Government Law Review 2014 Article the Invisible Women: Have Conceptions about Femininity Led to the Global Dominance of the Female Human Trafficker? Samuel Vincent Jones [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Albany... 2014  
Mary Anne Case The Ladies? Forget about Them. A Feminist Perspective on the Limits of Originalism 29 Constitutional Commentary 431 (Summer 2014) One hundred years ago, in An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, Charles Beard asked of the Framers: Did they represent distinct groups whose economic interests they understood and felt in concrete, definite form through their own personal experience with identical property rights, or were they working merely under the...; Search Snippet: ...Of the United States the Ladies? Forget about Them. A Feminist Perspective on the Limits of Originalism Mary Anne Case [Fna1... 2014  
Clark Forsythe The Medical Assumption at the Foundation of Roe V. Wade & its Implications for Women's Health 29 Issues in Law and Medicine 183 (Fall, 2014) Too little attention has been paid over the past forty years to the complete lack of a factual record in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, and to the Court's fundamental assumption that drove the outcome. The decision and opinions were driven by the medical claim that abortion was safer than childbirth, which was raised for the first time...; Search Snippet: ...At the Foundation of Roe V. Wade & its Implications for Women's Health Clark Forsythe [Fna1] Copyright © 2014 by the National Legal... 2014  
Clarke Forsythe The Medical Assumption at the Foundation of Roe V. Wade & its Implications for Women's Health 71 Washington and Lee Law Review 827 (Spring, 2014) I. Introduction. 829 II. The Medical Premise of Roe v. Wade. 833 A. The Impact of Roe and Doe. 835 B. The Mistake that Left the Justices with No Record. 836 C. The Source of the Medical Mantra. 838 D. No Factual Record in the Abortion Cases. 840 E. Impact of the Medical Mantra. 844 1. The Public Health Vacuum. 844 2. The Expansion to Viability (and...; Search Snippet: ...At the Foundation of Roe V. Wade & its Implications for Women's Health Clarke Forsythe [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Washington and Lee... 2014  
Leigh Goodmark The Role of Clinical Legal Education in the Future of the Battered Women's Movement 22 Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy 27 (2013-2014) Over the last forty years, the battered women's movement has transformed the legal response to domestic violence in the United States. During the same time period, clinical legal education (including clinics dedicated to representing women subjected to abuse ) has grown tremendously and has fundamentally changed the way that lawyers in the United...; Search Snippet: ...Of Clinical Legal Education in the Future of the Battered Women's Movement Leigh Goodmark [Fn1] Copyright (C) 2013 Buffalo Journal Of... 2014  
Eugene M. Hyman (ret.) The Scarlet Eletter and Other Roadblocks to Redemption for Female Offenders 54 Santa Clara Law Review 119 (2014) Introduction. 120 I. Collateral Consequences. 124 A. Employment. 125 B. Economic Barriers to Employment. 129 C. Collateral Consequences of a Criminal Record Affect the Well-Being of Children. 131 D. Domestic Violence and Custody of Children. 133 E. Welfare Benefits. 134 F. Safe and Affordable Housing. 135 G. Access to Higher Education. 136 H. Loss...; Search Snippet: ...Article the Scarlet Eletter and Other Roadblocks to Redemption for Female Offenders Judge Eugene M. Hyman (Ret.) [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014... 2014  
Lianna E. Donovan The Violence Against Women Act's Protection of Immigrant Victims: Past, Present, and Proposals for the Future 66 Rutgers Law Review 745 (Spring 2014) Introduction. 745 I. Intimate Partner Violence in Context. 747 A. Intimate Partner Violence Generally. 747 B. Intimate Partner Violence and Immigrant Victims. 751 II. The Dangerous Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and Immigration Law. 754 A. The Concepts of Coverture and Chastisement in Early Immigration Law. 754 B. Congressional...; Search Snippet: ...Review Rutgers Law Review Spring 2014 Notes the Violence Against Women Act's Protection of Immigrant Victims: Past, Present, and Proposals For... 2014  
Catharine A. MacKinnon Toward a Renewed Equal Rights Amendment: Now More than Ever 37 Harvard Journal of Law & Gender 569 (Summer 2014) The sexes are human equals. Yet women, on the whole, are not men's legal equals or, by most any standard, men's social equals. The laws that guarantee against discrimination--mainly the Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 --have, I argue, gone about as far as they will or can to produce...; Search Snippet: ...21 (1987), and Catharine A. Mackinnon, Unthinking Era Thinking, in Women's Lives, Men's Laws 13 (2005). Lisa Cardyn Is Warmly Thanked... 2014  
Catherine Jean Archibald Transgender Student in Maine May Use Bathroom That Matches Gender Identity--are Co-ed Bathrooms Next? 83 UMKC Law Review 57 (Fall, 2014) No State shall . . . deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. -Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Section 1. No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law . . . . -Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. This is an exciting time for...; Search Snippet: ...Article Transgender Student in Maine May Use Bathroom That Matches Gender Identity--are Co-ed Bathrooms Next? Catherine Jean Archibald [Fna1... 2014  
Christopher Deluzio Tribes and Race: the Court's Missed Opportunity in Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl 34 Pace Law Review 509 (Spring, 2014) Adoption policy in the United States has unequivocally embraced the idea that every child, irrespective of race, has an equal right to a loving home and supportive parents. To that end, public adoption agencies and family courts are largely barred from considering the race of either the child or the couple seeking adoption when deciding custody and...; Search Snippet: ...Race: the Court's Missed Opportunity in Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl Christopher Deluzio [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Pace University School Of... 2014  
Verónica Caridad Rabelo, Lilia M. Cortina , University of Michigan Two Sides of the Same Coin: Gender Harassment and Heterosexist Harassment in Lgbq Work Lives 38 Law and Human Behavior 378 (August, 2014) This project investigated the incidence, interplay, and impact of gender-and sexuality-based harassment, as experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) employees in higher education. Unlike much queer empirical research, participants in this study were residents of noncoastal regions of the U.S. that are predominantly White, rural, and...; Search Snippet: ...Human Behavior August, 2014 Two Sides of the Same Coin: Gender Harassment and Heterosexist Harassment in Lgbq Work Lives Verónica Caridad... 2014  
Janel A. George Undermining Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Discipline Disparities 19-DEC NBA National Bar Association Magazine 18 (December, 2014) Although many African American girls were pivotal in advancing educational opportunity before and during the Civil Rights era, the educational outcomes of African American girls are being undermined by practices influenced by race and gender bias, including overly punitive discipline practices in schools. A recent report by the NAACP Legal Defense...; Search Snippet: ...Nba National Bar Association Magazine December, 2014 Undermining Opportunity: Race, Gender, and Discipline Disparities Janel A. George [Fna1] Copyright © 2014 by the National Bar Association; Janel A. George a Lthough Many African American Girls Were Pivotal in Advancing Educational Opportunity Before and During the Civil 2014 African/Black American
Jennifer Pusch Urban Struggles: an Analysis of Title Ix and Urban High Schools Athletic Opportunities for Girls 29 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 317 (Summer 2014) Introduction. 317 I. Title IX. 319 A. Title IX History. 319 i. Build-Up. 320 ii. Legislation. 321 B. Breakdown of Act/Judicial Interpretation. 321 C. Failure in Urban High Schools. 323 i. Statistics. 323 ii. Reasons for Opportunities Lag. 324 II. Importance of Athletics. 325 III. Title IX is NOT the Answer. 326 A. Historical Use of Title IX -...; Search Snippet: ...Of Title Ix and Urban High Schools Athletic Opportunities for Girls Jennifer Pusch [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Wisconsin Journal of Law... 2014  
Linda Coco Visible Women: Locating Women in Financial Failure, Bankruptcy Law, and Bankruptcy Reform 8 Charleston Law Review 191 (Winter 2013-2014) I. INTRODUCTION. 192 II. SYMBOLIC VIOLENCE AND GENDER DIVISION. 196 A. Female Financial Actors: Economic Inferiority and Financial Exclusion. 201 B. Implementing the Gender Order. 205 C. Gender Neutrality: Language and Power. 206 D. BAPCPA's Means Testing: One-Size-Fits-All Men and Women. 208 E. Women as Support Creditors Under BAPCPA. 212 III....; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Charleston Law Review Winter 2013-2014 Article Visible Women: Locating Women in Financial Failure, Bankruptcy Law, and Bankruptcy Reform Linda Coco... 2014  
Leader Nancy Pelosi When Women Succeed, America Succeeds 25 Hastings Women's Law Journal 173 (Summer 2014) Last week I was in Seneca Falls, New York, and was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. It was such a source of pride to me. I was thrilled. But very thrilled, because after votes, 19 of my colleagues, my women colleagues, came up there. You can just imagine how the crowd reacted to seeing this beautiful diverse group of women Members...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Hastings Women's Law Journal Summer 2014 Article When Women Succeed, America Succeeds [Fna1] Leader Nancy Pelosi [Fnaa1] Copyright ©... 2014  
Ashley Valdez Who's Really Determining Our Social Policy? Revisiting the Relationship Between Congress and the Courts in Workplace Gender Discrimination 25 Hastings Women's Law Journal 327 (Summer 2014) Betty Dukes worked as a Wal-Mart employee in Pittsburg, California since 1994. She started as a cashier, but eventually received a promotion to customer service manager. Despite years of service and positive performance reviews, the employment relationship soured when Wal-Mart disciplined Dukes for violating company policy. When filing her claim,...; Search Snippet: ...Revisiting the Relationship Between Congress and the Courts in Workplace Gender Discrimination Ashley Valdez [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Uc Hastings College... 2014  
Karen Leroux With Allies, Some Women Lawyers Overcame the Odds 97 Judicature 206 (January-February 2014) Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America's America's First Women Lawyers by Jill Norgren. NYU Press. 286 pages. $29.95 In Rebels at the Bar, historian Jill Norgren invites readers to peer into the lives of eight women representing the first generation of women lawyers in the late nineteenth century United States. By...; Search Snippet: ...766903 Judicature Judicature January-february 2014 Books with Allies, Some Women Lawyers Overcame the Odds Karen Leroux [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014... 2014  
Lindsay Hart With Inadequate Protection under the Law, Transgender Students Fight to Access Restrooms in Public Schools Based on Their Gender Identity 41 Northern Kentucky Law Review 315 (2014) Coy Mathis appeared to be a typical a six-year-old girl with long blonde hair and a big smile. Coy wore dresses, played with stereotypically girls' toys, and had predominately female playmates. What could not be observed was that Coy was born a boy. But, independently and at an early age, Coy became distraught when treated as a boy and refused to...; Search Snippet: ...Fight to Access Restrooms in Public Schools Based on Their Gender Identity Lindsay Hart [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014 Northern Kentucky University... 2014  
Claire M. DeMatteis Women and the Delaware Bar and Bench: it Takes Generations 14 Delaware Law Review 125 (2014) Despite the pride Delaware rightly claims as The First State, it was the last state to admit women to the bar. That was nearly a century ago, in 1923. Today, more than one-third of all attorneys in Delaware are women. Yet, on our world-renowned business courts - the Supreme Court and the Court of Chancery - exactly one woman has served on either...; Search Snippet: ...2014 Wl 2621182 Delaware Law Review Delaware Law Review 2014 Women and the Delaware Bar and Bench: it Takes Generations Claire... 2014  
  Women in the Law 61-SEP Federal Lawyer 30 (September, 2014) On Friday, July 11, the Federal Bar Association held its inaugural Women in the Law Conference at George Washington University. The conference covered the past, present, and future of women in the legal profession as well as touching on some legal issues that women face today. D.C. Circuit Judge Patricia A. Millett gave the morning keynote address...; Search Snippet: ...2014 Wl 4409835 Federal Lawyer Federal Lawyer September, 2014 Department Women in the Law Power and Progress Copyright © 2014 by Federal... 2014  
Molly A. Schiffer Women of Color and Crime: a Critical Race Theory Perspective to Address Disparate Prosecution 56 Arizona Law Review 1203 (2014) This Note seeks to acknowledge, explain, and offer a remedy to the problem of disparate prosecution of women of color. Women of color are disproportionately arrested and prosecuted for felonies around the country, and are overrepresented in the criminal justice system compared to their white women counterparts. Black and Native women are prosecuted...; Search Snippet: ...Wl 7006140 Arizona Law Review Arizona Law Review 2014 Note Women of Color and Crime: a Critical Race Theory Perspective To... 2014 African/Black American
Carmen G. González Women of Color in Legal Education 61-JUL Federal Lawyer 48 (July, 2014) As the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged in the landmark decision of Grutter v. Bollinger upholding the University of Michigan Law School's race-conscious admissions process, the educational benefits of a diverse student body are substantial. These include enhanced cross-racial understanding; classroom discussions that are livelier, more spirited,...; Search Snippet: ...Federal Lawyer Federal Lawyer July, 2014 Women in the Law Women of Color in Legal Education Challenging the Presumption of Incompetence... 2014  
Nicole Buonocore Porter Women, Unions, and Negotiation 14 Nevada Law Journal 465 (Spring 2014) In a period when union membership is at an all-time low (at least in the private sector), some (or perhaps many) people have given up hope that the labor movement can be revived. I believe that the labor movement still has the potential to be successful but needs to be re-imagined and reinvigorated. One way (among many) of doing this is to increase...; Search Snippet: ...Nevada Law Journal Spring 2014 Symposium: Democracy and the Workplace Women, Unions, and Negotiation Nicole Buonocore Porter [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2014... 2014  
Danielle J. Larson You're Breaking Up: the Faulty Connection Between Congressional Intent and Supreme Court Interpretation in Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl, 133 S. Ct. 2552 (2013) 93 Nebraska Law Review 517 (2014) I. Introduction. 518 II. Background. 519 A. Legislative History of ICWA. 519 1. Indian Child Removal Pre-ICWA. 519 2. Factors Driving Removal Rates. 520 a. Physical Abuse. 520 b. Ethnocentrism. 520 c. Institutional Structure. 523 B. Overview of ICWA. 524 C. Existing Indian Family Exception. 525 D. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians v. Holyfield....; Search Snippet: ...Intent and Supreme Court Interpretation in Adoptive Couple V. Baby Girl, 133 S. Ct. 2552 (2013) Danielle J. Larson Copyright ©... 2014 American Indian/Alaskan Native
Nick Tamburri A Lack of Civility: How New Jersey Law Fails to Protect Women 43 Seton Hall Law Review 1041 (2013) M.R. had been living in New Jersey for six years when he met A.R. in 1985. The two became romantically involved and moved to Mississippi in 1987, where they were married shortly after the birth of their first child. They had two more children and moved back and forth between Mississippi and New Jersey several times during their marriage before...; Search Snippet: ...Lack of Civility: How New Jersey Law Fails to Protect Women Nick Tamburri [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Seton Hall University School... 2013  
Lisa Pratt Access to Vaginal Birth after Cesarean: Restrictive Policies and the Chilling of Women's Medical Rights During Childbirth 20 William and Mary Journal of Women and the Law 105 (Fall, 2013) INTRODUCTION I. THE RISE AND FALL OF VBAC A. The History of the VBAC Movement B. Current Medical Research on the Safety of VBAC C. Legal Framework II. LAWS AND POLICIES THAT RESTRICT VBAC A. Hospital Policies That Prohibit VBAC B. Midwifery Laws and Regulations That Prohibit or Restrict VBAC C. Birth Center Laws, Regulations, and Policies Against...; Search Snippet: ...Vaginal Birth after Cesarean: Restrictive Policies and the Chilling of Women's Medical Rights During Childbirth Lisa Pratt [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013... 2013  
Naurice Frank Woods, Jr. Adaline and the Judge: an Ex-slave Girl's Journey with Albion W. Tourgée 5 Elon Law Review 199 (2013) Ohio native Albion Winegar Tourgée (1838-1905) is, perhaps, best known for his time spent in North Carolina immediately after the Civil War as the state's most infamous carpetbagger and the author of bestselling novels, such as A Fool's Errand. During and after his time living in the South, Tourgée remained a lightning rod for controversy. Much of...; Search Snippet: ...Review 2013 Article Adaline and the Judge: an Ex-slave Girl's Journey with Albion W. Tourgée Naurice Frank Woods, Jr. [Fn1... 2013  
Joan Entmacher , Amy Matsui Addressing the Challenges Women Face in Retirement: Improving Social Security, Pensions, and Ssi 46 John Marshall Law Review 749 (Spring 2013) It is a truth universally acknowledged (or it should be) that women are more economically vulnerable than men in retirement. On average, women's lifetime earnings are lower than men's, and divorce, single parenthood, and widowhood have a particularly detrimental impact on women's economic security. Thus, women reach retirement with lower Social...; Search Snippet: ...John Marshall Law Review Spring 2013 Article Addressing the Challenges Women Face in Retirement: Improving Social Security, Pensions, and Ssi Joan... 2013  
Brenda V. Smith , Melissa C. Loomis After Dothard: Female Correctional Workers and the Challenge to Employment Law 8 FIU Law Review 469 (Spring, 2013) This article examines a profession where women have made great strides corrections. Using an equality framework, corrections and other non-traditional professions were the first target of the feminist movement in the 1970s. By and large, feminists were successful in creating greater porosity for women in law enforcement, emergency services,...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Fiu Law Review Spring, 2013 Article after Dothard: Female Correctional Workers and the Challenge to Employment Law Brenda V... 2013  
Michelle P. Crockett Alone on an Island 92-SEP Michigan Bar Journal 42 (September, 2013) The representation of women of color in law firms, particularly in the partnership ranks, is abysmally low. This phenomenon is more closely examined from the perspective of an attorney who is intimately connected with the ongoing diversity issue that many firms throughout the country continue to struggle with. Arecent article in The New York Times...; Search Snippet: ...Alone on an Island the Realities of Practicing Law for Women of Color Michelle P. Crockett [Fna1] Copyright © 2013 by State... 2013  
Sarah Primrose An Unlikely Feminist Icon?: Justice Harry A. Blackmun's Continuing Influence on Reproductive Rights Jurisprudence 19 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 393 (Winter 2013) One's philosophy, one's experiences, one's exposure to the raw edges of human existence, one's religious training, one's attitudes towards life and family and their values, and the moral standards one establishes and seeks to observe, are all likely to influence and to color one's thinking and conclusions about abortion. - Justice Harry A....; Search Snippet: ...Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender Winter 2013 Article an Unlikely Feminist Icon?: Justice Harry A. Blackmun's Continuing Influence on Reproductive Rights... 2013 African/Black American
Nicole Hancock Are We There Yet?!? a Statistical View of Equality for Women in Idaho 56-JAN Advocate 28 (January, 2013) One recent Saturday morning, I sat at my dining room table next to my fourth-grade son, Joshua. He was working on his Idaho history project and learning about our great state. Joshua was listing the symbols represented in Idaho's state seal, along with an explanation for each one. The grain and plow represent agriculture, the miner represents the...; Search Snippet: ...Are We There Yet?!? a Statistical View of Equality for Women in Idaho Nicole Hancock [Fna1] Copyright © 2013 by the Idaho... 2013  
Ali Ammoura Banning the Hijab in Prisons: Violations of Incarcerated Muslim Women's Right to Free Exercise of Religion 88 Chicago-Kent Law Review 657 (2013) On November 1, 2011, officers at the Orange County Superior Court took Souhair Khatib, a practicing Muslim woman who wore the hijab, the Islamic headscarf, into custody, and to her dismay and humiliation, ordered her to remove her hijab and to remain without it while in custody. Khatib explained to the officers that her religion forbade her from...; Search Snippet: ...Note Banning the Hijab in Prisons: Violations of Incarcerated Muslim Women's Right to Free Exercise of Religion Ali Ammoura [Fna1] Copyright... 2013  
Patricia A. Broussard Black Women's Post-slavery Silence Syndrome: a Twenty-first Century Remnant of Slavery, Jim Crow, and Systemic Racism--who Will Tell Her Stories? 16 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 373 (Spring 2013) One hot summer's day in the late 1950s, a young mother put her three young children down for a nap. She also bathed and prepared four of her sister's children for naptime. This young woman had volunteered to care for her nephew and nieces while their mother, her younger sister, was in the hospital delivering her fifth child. A short while after...; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Gender, Race and Justice Spring 2013 Article Black Women's Post-slavery Silence Syndrome: a Twenty-first Century Remnant Of... 2013 African/Black American
Michael Selmi , Sonia Weil Can All Women Be Pharmacists?: a Critique of Hanna Rosin's the End of Men 93 Boston University Law Review 851 (May, 2013) Introduction. 851 I. Rosin's Evidence for the Rise of Women. 855 A. The Recession. 855 B. Pharmacists Yes, but What Other Occupations?. 857 C. Education. 861 D. The Issue of Choice. 864 II. Why Do We Need the End of Men?. 867 Conclusion. 870; Search Snippet: ...University Law Review May, 2013 Panel Ii: Employment Can All Women Be Pharmacists?: a Critique of Hanna Rosin's the End Of... 2013  
Barbara S. Mishkin Cfpb Office of Women and Minority Inclusion to Propose Diversity Standards for Regulated Entities 67 Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 77 (2013) The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection's (CFPB) Office of Women and Minority Inclusion (OMWI) has issued its first annual report to Congress covering the OMWI's activities in 2012 (the report). The Dodd-Frank Act required the CFPB and various other federal agencies including the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). Treasury, OCC, FDIC, NCUA, SEC and...; Search Snippet: ...Report Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 2013 Cfpb Office of Women and Minority Inclusion to Propose Diversity Standards for Regulated Entities... 2013  
Cindy A. Schipani , Terry Morehead Dworkin Class Action Litigation after Dukes: in Search of a Remedy for Gender Discrimination in Employment 46 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 1249 (Summer 2013) In this Article we argue for substantial reforms to our system of combating workplace gender discrimination in light of the Supreme Court's ruling in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes. To help counter discrimination victims' decreasing access to the courts, our proposals call for a narrow construction of the holding of Dukes. At the same time,...; Search Snippet: ...Action Litigation after Dukes: in Search of a Remedy for Gender Discrimination in Employment [Fnd1] Cindy A. Schipani [Fna1] Terry Morehead... 2013  
Lisa Lucile Owens Coerced Parenthood as Family Policy: Feminism, the Moral Agency of Women, and Men's "Right to Choose" 5 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (2013) Part of what makes human agency moral is the demand that individuals think through their choices and, to the extent that they are choices made freely and unilaterally, that they shoulder most if not all of the consequences that visit upon those choices. It is not uncommon for the state to intervene in this moral field, shifting to choice-bystanders...; Search Snippet: ...Coerced Parenthood as Family Policy: Feminism, the Moral Agency of Women, and Men's Right to Choose Lisa Lucile Owens [Fna1] Copyright... 2013  
Lauren Kois , Jessica Pearson , Preeti Chauhan , Margaret Goni, Lisa Saraydarian , John Jay College of Criminal Justice and City University of New York, Elmhurst Hospital Center, Elmhurst, New York and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, John Jay College of C Competency to Stand Trial among Female Inpatients 37 Law and Human Behavior 231 (2013) Competency to stand trial evaluations are conducted by forensic mental health professionals to opine whether defendants possess the mental abilities to understand, appreciate, and reason in regard to their court proceedings. The majority of research on competency to stand trial evaluations has focused on males, with research on female defendants...; Search Snippet: ...Law and Human Behavior 2013 Competency to Stand Trial among Female Inpatients Lauren Kois [Fna1] John Jay College of Criminal Justice... 2013  
Andrea J. Ritchie Crimes Against Nature: Challenging Criminalization of Queerness and Black Women's Sexuality 14 Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law 355 (Spring 2013) Over the past two centuries, racialized policing of sexualities deemed deviant was, in Louisiana, facilitated by the existence of a centuries-old crime against nature law. In 1982, the legislature added a crime against nature by solicitation provision (CANS), which singled out solicitation of oral or anal sex for compensation for harsher...; Search Snippet: ...Article Crimes Against Nature: Challenging Criminalization of Queerness and Black Women's Sexuality Andrea J. Ritchie [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Loyola University... 2013 African/Black American
Carla-Michelle Adams, Esq. Criminalization in Shades of Color: Prosecuting Pregnant Drug-addicted Women 20 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 89 (Fall 2013) The development of the fetal protection movement and the legal acknowledgement of fetal rights has resulted in states beginning to hold expecting mothers legally accountable for their drug abuse during pregnancy through the imposition of criminal sanctions. It is estimated that each year 375,000 drug dependent infants will be born from...; Search Snippet: ...Article Criminalization in Shades of Color: Prosecuting Pregnant Drug-addicted Women Carla-michelle Adams, Esq. [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Yeshiva University... 2013  
Kaaryn Gustafson Degradation Ceremonies and the Criminalization of Low-income Women 3 UC Irvine Law Review 297 (May, 2013) This Article, a call for both empirical social scientists and critical race theorists to engage with each other in careful interpretive analysis, applies sociologist Harold Garfinkel's concept of ceremonial degradation to policies, practices, and proposals targeting low-income women of color in the United States. This Article offers several...; Search Snippet: ...Article & Essay Degradation Ceremonies and the Criminalization of Low-income Women Kaaryn Gustafson [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2013 Law Library, University Of... 2013  
Ramona Fernandez De-tenured: a Latina Endures More than Four Decades in the Educational Industrial Complex 12 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 421 (Fall/Winter, 2013) Our ancestors' journals are one long cry of pain. - Joanna Russ It is possible that North American academia has made little to no progress in racial and gender equality in the very halls that should lead us to a better world. The stories in Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia frighten anyone with the...; Search Snippet: ...Confusion. My Ambiguous Physical Appearance, Coupled with a Highly Marked Latino Name and a Mother Whose Eastern European Ancestry Was Passed... 2013 Hispanic/Latinx American
Susan E. Trent Detroit as Catalyst for Discussion on Women Lawyers in History 32-NOV American Bankruptcy Institute Journal 20 (November, 2013) Detroit is likely best known for three things: automobiles, Motown and sports. Its historical contribution to the American dream is significant--from Henry Ford's affordable cars rolling off the line, to the creation of uniquely American music performed by legendary artists like The Four Tops, The Jackson 5 and The Supremes, to the thrilling sports...; Search Snippet: ...Journal November, 2013 Feature Detroit as Catalyst for Discussion on Women Lawyers in History Susan E. Trent [Fna1] Copyright © 2013 By... 2013  
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