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...Karen DeCrow, 36. "Gender should not be a very important aspect of how one functions in society today," says the newly elected president of the National Organization for Women, the largest (40,000 members in 700 chapters) and most influential group in the U.S. women's liberation movement. DeCrow, a Northwestern alumna, was raised in Chicago and held a series of editorial jobs there and in New York City before moving to Syracuse in 1965. Protesting unfair wage practices toward women, she joined NOW in 1967, won a degree from Syracuse University's law school five years later...
...DeCrow's view of the integrity of women seems appallingly...
Sexist Justice does give a fairly accurate picture of the problem women encounter in obtaining good jobs, maternity leaves, abortions, and their own names--in short, equal rights. One of the most outrageous tyrannies waged against women in DeCrow's book is the difficulty of obtaining credit. In many instances where a husband and wife both work, the couple applying for a mortgage is not allowed to include the wife's income in the application, particularly in cases where the woman is of childbearing age. In order to count the income, many women have been told by banks...
...DECROW GOES TO great lengths in speaking about the root of inequality in the legal system--the law school. She cites problems she encountered in her own legal education. An especially interesting quotation came from a "popular first-year property casebook" which says, "For after all, land, like women, was meant to be possessed." At the beginning of the book DeCrow provides extensive historical background for her theories. Most of this material is not germane to her present subject--today's injustice--because it is concerned with legal practices long dead and buried. DeCrow does spare her reader...
Perhaps the problem with DeCrow's book is that it lacks the total perception or awareness needed for such a work. The one-sided view is accompanied by few suggestions for improvement or action. DeCrow says that her book is not a summary of laws on women. That is unfortunate, for Sexist Justice would function better as a strictly informational work than as a "feminist interpretation" which negates human dignities. Nonetheless this is a valuable book, if only because legal injustices are still painfully real to women in this country. As Abigail Adams once told John...