Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work Audiobook (Free)

Best known as a monumental accomplishment of the civil privileges motion, the 1964 Civil Rights Action also revolutionized the lives of America’s working women. Title VII of the law made it unlawful to discriminate ‘because of sex.’ But that simple term didn’t mean much until ordinary females began using regulations to get justice in the job-and some took their battles completely to the Supreme Courtroom. Among them had been Ida Phillips, refused an assembly line job because she got a preschool-age child; Kim about Due to Sex: One Rules, Ten Instances, and Fifty Years That Transformed American Women’s Lives at Work Rawlinson, who fought to become prison guard-a ‘man’s work’; Mechelle Vinson, who brought a lawsuit for sexual abuse before ‘intimate harassment’ even got a name; & most recently, Peggy Young, UPS truck drivers, forced to take an unpaid keep while pregnant because she asked for a short-term reprieve from heavy lifting.

These unsung heroines’ victories, and those of the other women profiled in Gillian Thomas’s Due to Sex, dismantled a Mad Men world where women could just hope to play supporting roles; where intimate harassment was ‘simply the way issues are’; and where pregnancy meant obtaining a pink slip.

Through first-person accounts and vivid narrative, Because of Sex tells the story of how one law, our highest court, and a few tenacious women changed the American workplace forever.