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Prologue: Toward Equality (1968)

Prologue: Toward Equality (1968)

For a woman who wanted to become an American lawyer, the time before 1968 was a time of inequality.  If you entered Harvard Law School before 1950, for example, you were male.  Although some American law schools had admitted a trickle of women for decades, prior to 1950 Harvard practiced perfect discrimination:  No woman need apply.

            By 1967, the percentage of women in the nation's law schools had reached only about 5%.  1968 changed American law.  The United States government announced plans to take away men's draft exemptions for attending law school.

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[This is the opening of the prologue of Fred Strebeigh, Equal: Women Reshape American Law (W. W. Norton, 2009), listed in the Norton catalog and also at Amazon.com.]

A note on this website for Equal: Women Reshape American Law


As of May 2012, Microsoft has ended its long-running website service called Microsoft Office Live, on which I built this site, www.EqualWomen.com.  I am now rebuilding the site on a new website service, but for a while this site may remain in progress.

Many apologies, Fred Strebeigh
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