Sunday, April 3, 2011

Do We Need a Brown v. Board of Education for Women? - She Negotiates - And changes everything... - Forbes

Do We Need a Brown v. Board of Education for Women? - She Negotiates - And changes everything... - Forbes

Do We Need a Brown v. Board of Education for Women?

Apr. 3 2011 - 12:28 pm | 1 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments

The most thought provoking comment on the viability of the Wal-Mart class action heard by the Supreme Court last week was Daniel Fisher’s observation that “the allegations against Wal-Mart could be made against the entire country.”

As Fisher wrote,

The Census Bureau reports women averaged $25,373 in 2009, compared with $41,750 for men. An amicus brief by the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Women’s Law Center filed in the Dukes case shows sex-based disparities don’t stop at the