Law Professor, University of Minnesota. Constitutional Law • Family Law • Sex Equality. Three books—We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality, Intimate Lies and the Law, and Family Law Reimagined.
Jill Hasday
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On this day in 1921, Phyllis Wallace was born. She became a trailblazing economist studying sex and race discrimination in employment at the EEOC and as the first female professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. #WeTheMen
On this day in 1953, the Supreme Court held that racially segregating restaurants in DC was illegal. The suit began when Mary Church Terrell and other civil rights activists attempted to eat at the whites-only Thompson’s Cafeteria in 1950. Terrell was 89 when she won at the Supreme Court. #WeTheMen
On this day in 1965, the Supreme Court in Griswold v. Connecticut struck down a Connecticut law criminalizing the use of contraception. Estelle Griswold, executive director of Planned Parenthood Connecticut, openly violated the law and was arrested to set the test case in motion. #WeTheMen
On this day in 1916, East Cleveland became the 1st city east of the Mississippi River to empower women to vote in municipal elections. After the measure passed (936-508), suffragists gathered to celebrate. “There were shouts and songs and much laughing and exchanging of congratulations.” #WeTheMen
On this day in 2016, Hillary Clinton became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party & the 1st woman to win a major party’s presidential nomination. In her convention speech, she said: “Standing here as my mother’s daughter, and my daughter’s mother, I’m so happy this day has come.” #WeTheMen
On this day in 1956, a 3-judge court held (2-1) that Montgomery’s segregation of buses was unconstitutional. This podcast tells the stories of the women who organized & sustained the bus boycott, which finally ended after the Supreme Ct affirmed the lower ct. decision.
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On this day in 1920, Congress established the Women’s Bureau in the U.S. Labor Department to “promote the welfare of wage-earning women” and “advance their opportunities for profitable employment.” The Trump Administration slashed the Bureau’s staff and is trying to eliminate the Bureau. #WeTheMen
On this day in 1919, the 19th Amendment passed the Senate with just 2 votes to spare & went to the states for ratification. Suffragists like Maud Wood Park noted that Senators from states that had already enfranchised women feared alienating their female constituents & losing their seats. #WeTheMen
On this day in 1906, Josephine Baker was born. She became a performer, a WWII spy for the Allies & a civil rights advocate. In 1963, she was one of the few women allowed to speak at the March on Washington. She urged people to use the “fire burning inside me” to “light that fire in you.” #WeTheMen
On this day in 1863, Harriet Tubman became the 1st woman to lead a major U.S. military operation. She led 150 African American soldiers on a successful mission to free more than 750 enslaved people. One journalist wrote that the Combahee Ferry Raid “struck terror to the heart of rebeldom.” #WeTheMen
Jill Hasday
Jill Hasday
Jill Hasday
Jill Hasday
Jill Hasday
Jill Hasday
Jill Hasday
Jill Hasday
Jill Hasday
Jill Hasday
We've heard about Rosa Parks and her crucial role in the Montgomery bus boycott. But Parks was just one of many women who organized for years. In this episode, those women tell their own story.
