Areas of Study
Equality & Civil Rights
How did the battle for gender equity in the 1970s shape our culture today?
"he battle for gender equity in the 1970s has had such a profound impact on American culture that we tend no longer to recognize its legacy. In the law, the explicit gender lines which used to determine rights and responsibilities in virtually every sector have now all but disappeared. Gender stereotypes – such as regarding men as breadwinners and women as homemakers – began seriously to be questioned, allowing both sexes more freedom to design their own lives. The 1970s gender revolution, however, like all emancipation projects, was woefully incomplete. Legal feminists in this century are still searching for ways to combat high levels of sexual violence, a stubborn gender pay gap, and the difficult conflicts balancing work and family that face most mothers and fathers. The meaning of gender equity has now also expanded to include rights for gay, lesbian, and transgendered persons and to go deeper to eradicate barriers to success and self-determination for women of all colors, social classes, and backgrounds."
Martha Chamallas
Robert J. Lynn Chair in Law
Faculty
Michelle Alexander
Associate Professor of Law
Sanford N. Caust-Ellenbogen
Associate Professor of Law
Martha Chamallas
Robert J. Lynn Chair in Law
Ruth Colker
Distinguished University Professor and Heck Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law
Sharon L. Davies
John C. Elam/Vorys Sater Professor of Law, Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
Katherine Hunt Federle
Professor of Law; Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Law & Policy Studies
Edward B. Foley
Isadore and Ida Topper Professor of Law; Director, Election Law @ Moritz
David A. Goldberger
Isadore and Ida Topper Professor Emeritus of Law
L. Camille Hébert
Carter C. Kissell Professor of Law
Stanley K. Laughlin, Jr.
Professor of Law; Adjunct Professor of Anthropology
Deborah Jones Merritt
John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law; Courtesy Professor of Sociology; Courtesy Professor of Public Policy and Management, and Associate Faculty Member in Women's Studies
Peter M. Shane
Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law
Marc Spindelman
Professor of Law
Daniel P. Tokaji
Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law; Senior Fellow, Election Law @ Moritz
Vincene Verdun
Associate Professor of Law
Charles E. Wilson
Associate Professor of Law
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