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Almost Astronauts: 13 Women Who Dared to Dream
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Tanya Lee Stone
When NASA was launched in 1958, 13 women proved they had as much of the right stuff as men to be astronauts, but their way to space was blocked by prejudice, insecurity, and a scrawled note written by one of Washington's most powerful men. This is the true story of the Mercury 13 women. Illustrations.
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Getting Even: Why Women Don't Get Paid Like Men--And What to Do about It
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Evelyn Murphy, E J Graff
In a book sure to explode into public debate, "Getting Even" reveals why the wage gap between men and women is not going away on its own.
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Playing with the Boys: Why Separate Is Not Equal in Sports
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Eileen McDonagh, Laura Pappano
From small-town life to the national stage, from the boardroom to Capitol Hill, athletic contests help define what we mean in America by "success." And by keeping women from "playing with the boys" on the grounds that they are inherently inferior to men, society relegates them to second-class status in American life. In this forcefully argued book ...
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Land of Idols: Political Mythology in America
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Michael Parenti
Arguing against the presumption that the U.S. has no dominant ideology, the author confronts the myths in American society that limit the perception of political reality and constrain progressive reform.
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Racism and Sexism: An Integrated Study
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Paula S Rothenberg
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Telling Stories Out of Court: Narratives about Women and Workplace Discrimination
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Ruth O'Brien (Editor), Liza Featherstone (Foreword by)
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Women; Power; And At& T Pbk
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Lois Kathryn Herr
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 ...
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Presumed Equal: What America's Top Women Lawyers Really Think about Their Firms
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Lindsay Blohm, Ashley Riveira
In this important new book, Lindsay Blohm and Ashley Riveira provide law students with valuable information about the state of gender equity and family-friendly policies in the country's top law firms. . . . The result is a candid and revealing account that will hopefully foster a badly needed dialogue among law firms, law students, and law ...
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Beyond Work-Family Balance: Advancing Gender Equity and Workplace Performance
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Rhona Rapoport, Lotte Bailyn, Joyce K Fletcher
Everyone who struggles to meet the demands of work and personal-life responsibilities knows how tough it is to do so. This bold new book shows that it is the deeply engrained separation of work and personal life that has limited our ability to deal effectively with the conflict between them. "Beyond Work-Family Balance" demonstrates why the image ...
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Women and (Injustice: The Criminal and Civil Effects of the Common Law on Women's Lives
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Sheryl J Grana
Women and (In)Justice examines a broad range of issues by combining coverage of both civil and criminal justice system perspectives. The text covers historical and contemporary consequences of civil rights and criminal laws and how these affect decisions that impact the lives of women in the United States. Women and (In)Justice looks at a number ...
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Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future
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Barbara J Berg
The news in 2008 was that women had taken huge strides forward. Feminists' decades-long struggle finally seemed to be paying off, not only in boardrooms, classrooms, and kitchens but also at the very top--in presidential politics. But what is the truth behind the headlines? In "Sexism in America: Alive, Well, and Ruining Our Future," renowned ...
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Who Discriminates Against Women
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Professor Florence L Denmark
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The Supreme Court and the American Family: Ideology and Issues
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Eva R Rubin
"Rubin reviews major Supreme Court decisions involving the American family and contends that Supreme Court precedents in this area reflect an ideological commitment of the Justices to traditional conceptions of the family. The analysis of case law presented in this work is comprehensive; issues considered include legitimacy, marital status, ...
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Law and Gender Bias
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Marcia Mobilia Boumil, Stephen C Hicks, Joel Friedman
This book is intended to be a primer for professionals and students in all areas of society and of both sexes. Its mission is to contribute to the ever widening discourse about gender bias and to provide a foundation for its rational and progressive elimination.
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Sex Discrimination and Law Firm Culture on the Internet: Lawyers at the Information Age Watercooler
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Amanda K Baumle
Despite the availability of some formal legal remedies, women lawyers rarely sue their employers, and often do not challenge discriminatory behavior. This book explores this seemingly contradictory situation, where lawyers fail to employ the legal system on their own behalf.
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Corporate Victimization of Women Pbk
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Elizabeth Szockyj (Editor), James G Fox (Editor)
Drawing on feminist theory, victimization research, and white-collar crime theory, Elizabeth Szockyj and James G. Fox analyze issues ranging from the Dalkon Shield to exclusionary policies in the workplace, and discusses avenues through which women may achieve redress.
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Women and Justice
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Sheryl J Grana
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Live Wire: Women and Brotherhood in the Electrical Industry
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Francine A Moccio
Belonging to a union can bring higher wages, fringe benefits, greater job security and, sometimes, training. But unions - still known as 'brotherhoods' - often remain rigidly segregated by gender, despite the fact that sexual harassment and discrimination in employment are illegal. "Live Wire" is an in-depth case study of Local 3 of the ...
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More Than Title IX: How Equity in Education Has Shaped the Nation
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Katherine Hanson
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Roberts V. JAYCEES: Women's Rights
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Susan Dudley Gold, Susan Dudley Gold
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