Saturday, October 17, 2009

Legal changes open doors to working women - More politics- msnbc.com

Legal changes open doors to working women - More politics- msnbc.com:

WASHINGTON - A woman's 'paramount destiny and mission,' a U.S. Supreme Court justice once wrote, is to fulfill 'the noble and benign offices of wife and mother.'

Decades of action by Congress and the courts eventually broke down many of the barriers that kept women from the American workplace. But the changes were slow in coming, and advocates for women say tougher legal protections are still needed.

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