Word: equalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opposition, including Friedan, 9 to 5, labor unions and an ad hoc group called the Coalition for Reproductive Equality in the Workplace, offers an equality argument with a different twist: under the California law, women are made equal to men in the sense that both can now exercise their reproductive rights without risking their jobs. In fact, however, these advocates are proposing women-only benefits, like those routinely offered to working mothers in other industrialized countries. Says Christine Littleton, co-founder of CREW and an acting professor of law at UCLA: "Sometimes equal treatment is what is necessary for long...
...problem is that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act seems to prohibit special benefits to either sex. Friedan, who has drawn most of the heat in a fairly calm debate, surprised many feminists by repudiating the equal-rights stance that the women's movement has taken for years. "The time has come to acknowledge that women are different from men," she says. "There has to be a concept of equality that takes into account that women are the ones who have the babies...
Rosenberg, author of Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism, is more embattled than Friedan. In the twelve-year case against Sears, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission charged that the retailer discriminated against women in high-paying commission-sales jobs. Sears argued that women showed little interest in these jobs and seemed to find noncommission work more enjoyable. Rosenberg testified that women are underrepresented in many jobs because they have "different interests" and have historically settled for less in the workplace because of competing demands of home and family. "It is naive," she said, "to believe that the natural...
Supporters of the 61-year-old Rehnquist, an associate justice for nearly 15 years, struck back with equal vigor...
...record ... contains over whelming and shocking evidence ... of lifelong hostility to claims for racial justice," Kennedy said. "He's wrong on equal rights for women, wrong in support of church and state, wrong on individual freedoms protected by the First Amendment. He is an extremist, too extreme to sit as chief justice...