History 2301E Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Eagle Forum, Alimony
2 May 2018
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How ERA Would Change Federal Laws
- Sex Bias in the U.S. code written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Brenda Feigen-Fasteau
o The former is a feminist lawyer
▪ Teaches at Columbia law school
o Funded by government
o Published by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
- Looking at all the federal laws that discriminate women and recommending changes
- Want to add ERA to the constitution – the equality principle
- Employment
o No changes
- Military
o Women must be drafted when men are drafted
▪ About individual capacity, not sex
o Women must be assigned to military combat duty
o Same number of men and women in the armed services
o Recruit an equal number of women into the military academies
- Family
o Stop celebrating the tradition family where the man is a breadwinner and the women a
homemaker
o Federal gov’t needs to provide government-supported child care
o Husband cannot choose where the family lives
o Need to nationalize no-fault divorce
o Gov’t must provide paternity and maternity leave
o Motherhood only applies to pregnant and nursing women
▪ not entitled to any special benefits or protections beyond that
o Women don’t need to take her husband’s name upon remarriage
- Moral standards
o Lower the age of consent to 12 years old
o Want a sex-neutral definition
o Bigamists must have special privileges that other felons don’t have
o Legalize prostitution
o Repeal the Mann Act
▪ Women don’t need to be protected from bad men
o Rape laws need to be sex-neutral
o Prisons and reformatories must be sex-integrated
- Education
o Ssex-integration of schools, colleges and their activities – public institutions
o Integration of all-boys/all-gils organizations
o Replace frats and sororities with social societies
o Men and women should salute the flag in the same way
- Social security
o No changes, women receive the same benefits as men
- Language
o Soecific recommened word changes – seen as sexisy
▪ Mandmade to artificial
▪ Mankind to humanity
▪ Husband, wife to spouse
o Want the women’s bureau to exist in the U.S. Department of Labor
- Believes the U.S. constitution is sex neutral
- Only sees 6/800 laws meanwhile worth changing
- Sex Bias hurts the ERA cause
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Document Summary
Sex bias in the u. s. code written by ruth bader ginsburg and brenda feigen-fasteau: the former is a feminist lawyer, teaches at columbia law school, funded by government, published by the u. s. commission on civil rights. Looking at all the federal laws that discriminate women and recommending changes. Want to add era to the constitution the equality principle. Education: ssex-integration of schools, colleges and their activities public institutions. Integration of all-boys/all-gils organizations: replace frats and sororities with social societies, men and women should salute the flag in the same way. Social security: no changes, women receive the same benefits as men. Language: soecific recommened word changes seen as sexisy, mandmade to artificial, mankind to humanity, husband, wife to spouse, want the women"s bureau to exist in the u. s. department of labor. Believes the u. s. constitution is sex neutral. Only sees 6/800 laws meanwhile worth changing.
