1. Romantic paternalism -- Early exclusion -- barred from being lawyers -- Bradwell v. Illinois (1873) -- the right to practice a trade -- Slaughter-House cases (1873) -- Denied: the right to vote -- Minor v. Happersett (1875) -- Myra Bradwell: editor, publisher, reformer -- Susan B. Anthony on trial -- The Nineteenth Amendment -- Protecting women's health and morals -- The nature of women's work -- the ten-hour workday -- Muller v. Oregon (1908) -- Minimum wage laws -- Adkins v. Children's Hospital of D.C. (1923) -- West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937) -- Ending protective legislation for women -- No place for a lady: women bartenders -- Goesaert v. Cleary (1948) -- Florence Kelley: crusader for reform -- George Sutherland: supporter of women's suffrage -- The Equal Rights Amendment -- 2. Jury duty -- Women as "the center of the home and family life" -- Strauder v. West Virginia (1880) -- Hoyt v. Florida (1961) -- "A fair cross-section of the community" -- Taylor v. Louisiana (1975)-- Ballard v. United States (1946) -- Gwendolyn Hoyt: a neglected wife strikes back -- Duren v. Missouri (1979) -- Picking a jury -- J.E.B. v. Alabama ex rel. T.B. (1994) -- 3. Sex discrimination : the search for a standard -- Interpreting the equal protection clause -- Four turning points -- Breaking new ground -- Reed v. Reed (1971) -- Sally Reed: a mother grieves for her son -- A double standard for benefits -- Frontiero v. Richardson (1973) -- Sharron Frontiero: the patient after whom the disease is named -- Justice for beer drinkers -- Craig v. Boren (1976) -- Mark Walker, Curtis Craig, and Carolyn whitener: two fraternity brothers and a beer vendor -- A higher standard? -- United States v. Virginia (1996) -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg as litigator: shaping the law -- 4. Women in the family : from subordinates to equal partners -- Unequal benefits for widows versus widowers -- Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld (1975) -- Califano v. Goldfarb (1977) -- Wengler v. Druggist Mutual Insurance Co. (1980) -- Stephen Wiesenfeld: a father sues for the right to stay home -- Compensating women for past discrimination -- Kahn v. Shevin (1974) -- Califano v. Webster (1977) -- Harmful stereotypes -- Age of majority: twenty-one for boys, eighteen for girls -- Stanton v. Stanton (1975) -- Alimony for men, too -- Orr v. Orr (1979) -- Unemployed fathers, unemployed mothers -- Califano v. Westcott (1979) -- Husband as "head and master" of household -- Kirchberg v. Feenstra (1981) --

5. Single-sex schools -- Nursing school for women only -- Mississippi University for Women v. Hogan (1982) -- Joe Hogan: male nurse -- Women as citizen-soldiers -- United States v. Virginia (1996) -- Gender equity in education: Title IX of the Education Act Amendment of 1972 -- 6. Different treatment of men and women -- Women and the Armed Forces -- Combat ships and sea duty -- Schlesinger v. Ballard (1975) -- Registering women for the draft -- Rostker v. Goldberg (1981) -- Giving veterans job preferences -- Personnel Administrator of Mass. v. Feeney (1979) -- Helen B. Feeney: a veteran fighter -- Unwed fathers and their children -- Child custody -- Stanley v. Illinois (1972) -- The right to veto an adoption and to sue for wrongful death -- Caban V. Mohammed (1979) -- Parham v. Hughes (1979) -- Lehr v. Robertson (1983) -- Children born outside the United States -- Lorelyn Penero Miller v. Madeleine K. Albright (1998) -- Tuan Anh Nguyen v. INS (2001) -- Teenage sex -- Michael M. V. Superior Court of Sonoma Cty. (1981) -- 7. Discrimination in the workplace -- title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: legislating equality in the workplace -- Getting hired -- Mothers with pre-school age children -- Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corp. (1971) -- Height and weight requirements -- Dothard v. Rawlinson (1977) -- Dianne Kimberly Rawlinson: a petite prison guard -- Not making partner, getting fired -- Hishon v. King & Spalding (1984) -- Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (1989) -- Ann Hopkins: neither woman nor man enough to make partner -- More than one motive for her firing -- Desert Palace, INc. v. Costa (2003) -- Affirmative Action -- Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara Cty. (1987) -- The Equal Pay Act of 1963: a remedy for women -- Paul Johnson: victim of Affirmative Action -- Pay and benefits -- Working on the night shift -- Corning Glass Works v. Brennan (1974) -- Equal pay for comparable worth -- County of Washington v. Gunther (1981) -- Discrimination in fringe benefits -- Los Angeles Dept. of water and Power v. Manhart (1978) -- Arizona Governing Committee v. Norris (1983) -- Too late to file a discrimination claim? -- Ledbetter v. Goodyear Rubber & Tire Co. (2007) -- Lilly Ledbetter : fighting pay discrimination -- 8. Sexual harassment -- Sexual harassment on the job -- Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson (1986) -- Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. (1993) -- Sexual harassment gains national attention -- Same-sex harassment -- Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, INc. (1998) -- Unfulfilled threats -- Burlington Industries, Inc. v. Ellerth (1998) -- Faragher v. City of Boca Raton (1998) -- One offensive remark does not make a hostile environment -- Clark County School dist. v. Breeden (2001) -- Recovering front pay in addition to damages -- Pollard v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co. (2001) -- Forced to resign or fired? -- Pennsylvania State Police v. Suders (2004) -- Fired for answering an employer's questions -- Crawford v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County (2009) -- Sexual harassment in schools -- Teachers harassing students -- Franklin v. Gwinnett county Public Schools (1992) -- Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School Dist. (1998) -- Students harassing other students -- Davis v. Monroe County School Bd. of Ed. (1999) -- Parents may sue under Title IX and the Fourteenth Amendment -- Fitzgerald v. Barnstable School Committee (2009) --

9. Pregnancy and childbirth -- Should pregnant teachers teach? -- Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur (1974) -- Pregnancy is not a disability -- Geduldig v. Aiello (1974) -- General Elec. Co. v. Gilbert (1976) -- Have a baby, lose seniority -- Nashville Gas Co. v. Satty (1977) -- The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 -- Discriminating against men: coverage of workers' wives -- Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. v. EEOC (1983) -- Special versus equal treatment for pregnant workers -- California Fed. S.&L. Assn. v. Guerra (1987) -- Fertile women need not apply -- Automobile workers v. Johnson Controls, Inc. -- Capt. Susan Struck: the case that got away -- Pregnancy discrimination lingers in pensions -- AT&T Corp. v. Hulteen (2009) -- Family leave -- 10. Reproductive rights -- Contraception -- The right to privacy -- The battler for birth control -- Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) -- Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972) -- Abortion -- Abortion reform laws -- Estelle Griswold: challenging the ban on birth control -- The first decisions -- Roe v. Wade (1973) -- Doe v. Bolton (1973) -- Roe: the aftermath -- Abortion funding -- Maher v. Roe (1977) -- Harris v. McRae (1980) -- Rust v. Sullivan (1991) -- Consent of husband, parents -- Planned Parenthood Assn. of Central Mo. v. Danforth (1976) -- Bellotti v. Baird (1979) -- Planned Parenthood Assn. of Kansas City, Mo., Inc. v. Ashcroft (1983) -- Hodgson v. Minnesota (11990) -- Ohio v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1990) -- Abortion procedure -- Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983) -- Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1986) -- Dr. Jane E. Hodgson: abortion pioneer -- Reconsidering and reaffirming Roe -- Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989) Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey (1992) -- Ban on a rare and controversial abortion procedure -- Stenberg v. Carhart (2000) -- Gonzales v. Carhart (2007) -- Antiabortion demonstrations at clinics -- Alias Jane Roe: the story of Norma Nelson McCorvey -- 11. Leading the way -- Women Bar members and advocates -- Belva A. Lockwood: first woman member of the Supreme Court Bar and first woman to argue before the Court -- First ladies of the Supreme Court -- The first women members of the Supreme Court Bar, 1879-1900 -- Women advocates before the Court -- Susan Brandeis: a justice's daughter argues before his Court -- Female law clerks -- Lucile Lomen: first women law clerk -- The first female law clerks -- Female law clerks, 1966-1971 -- Near misses: women considered for appointment to the Supreme Court -- Women on the Supreme Court -- Sandra Day O'Connor: first woman Justice -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: from litigator to Justice -- Sonia Sotomayor: first Latina on the Court -- Elena Kagan: from Solicitor General to Associate Justice.