Due to Intercourse: One Regulation, Ten Circumstances, and Fifty Years That Modified American Girls’s Lives at Work

Considered one of The New York Occasions’s 10 Books to Learn for Girls’s Historical past Month

Gillian Thomas’s Due to Intercourse tells the story of how one legislation, our highest courtroom, and some tenacious girls modified the American office perpetually. Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act revolutionized the lives of America’s working girls, making it unlawful to discriminate “due to intercourse.” However that easy phrase didn’t imply a lot till extraordinary girls started utilizing the legislation to get justice on the job―and a few took their fights all the way in which to the Supreme Court docket. These unsung heroines’ victories, and people of the opposite girls profiled in Due to Intercourse, dismantled a Mad Males world the place girls may solely hope to play supporting roles, the place sexual harassment was “simply the way in which issues are,” and the place being pregnant meant getting a pink slip.