Women
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Women in Law: 1953-1969
ArticleHow a small but growing number of women pursued law careers and advocated before the Supreme Court
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The Roles of Wives: 1953-1969
ArticleHow wives of justices supported their husbands, pursued their own interests, and managed their households and families
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The Role of Supreme Court Wives
ArticleThe significant roles of Supreme Court wives during the early decades of the Court
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Muller v. Oregon
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court decision that upheld a gender-based state labor law and set forth a legal distinction between men and women in the workplace.
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Miriam Naveira Merly
Life StoryThe Puerto Rican attorney who became the first woman to serve as Solicitor General of Puerto Rico, Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Puerto Rican Supreme Court, and the first woman of Puerto Rican descent to argue before the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Malvina Shanklin Harlan
Life StoryThe daughter of Northern abolitionists who became the influential wife of an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
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Lucile Lomen
Life StoryThe story of an attorney who became the first female Supreme Court Law Clerk and broke barriers for women in the legal profession and corporate America
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Incorporating Rights
EraDuring the 1950s and 1960s, Supreme Court decisions addressed issues involving individual rights in the civil rights movement, the apportionment of voting, police procedures, and the scope of state power in areas such as birth control and school prayer.
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Griswold v. Connecticut
Significant CaseThe first Supreme Court case linking reproduction to the right to privacy.
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Dorothy Kenyon
Life StoryThe lawyer and social activist whose lifelong advocacy laid the foundation for litigating women’s rights
