The Status of Women: The Path toward Legal Personhood.

Tevis, Martha

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ERIC Number: EJ253272

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1981

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The Status of Women: The Path toward Legal Personhood.

Tevis, Martha

Educational Horizons, v60 n1 p11-15 Fall 1981

Asserts that, historically, women lacked equal educational opportunity because they were not recognized as "persons" under United States law. Reviews twentieth-century changes in women's legal status and challenges to sex discrimination in education. Discusses areas of current concern. Part of a theme issue on women in education. (SJL)

Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Court Litigation, Discriminatory Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Feminism, Higher Education, Modern History, Sex Discrimination, Sex Fairness, United States History, Womens Education, Womens History

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials; Information Analyses

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Language: English

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