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Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives At Work
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Sept. 22, 2017 | BOOK REVIEW | Their names are enshrined on legal cases that became law, and cited ever after as precedents. But the stories of the lead plaintiffs who went to court and ended up making history got lost. Author Gillian Thomas wanted to find these women, recover their stories, and pay tribute to them. These are accounts of women working on factory assembly lines, as bank tellers and bank receptionists, forklift drivers, a state trooper – women working in factories, on the railroad, at United Parcel Service (UPS), who used the lever of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to reconstruct the legal rights of women in the workplace. Today, we take for granted… laborpress.org
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