The Unfinished Revolution: Changing Legal Status of U.S. Women

Les dichotomies en histoire des femmes : un défi

“…39 Hoff-Wilson 1987: 36. 40 Joan Scott 1988 Pour une discussion sur le « dilemme de la différence » voir Joan Scott 1988 : 48 ; cf.…”

Leadership Characteristics of Dietetic Professionals in Ohio

“…The moment the 1787 Constitution and Bill of Rights were completed and signed, women were prevented true, lawful equality in the United States. Although these documents did not specifically deny equal rights, the exclusion of "women" from the text signified a culture intolerant of women in leadership (Hoff-Wilson, 1987). As the American society gradually sought rectification of this historic blunder, the movement of women into leadership took many titles: women and development in the 1960s, gender and development in the 1970s, and then women's human rights in the 1990s (Snyder, 2003).…”

“…As the American society gradually sought rectification of this historic blunder, the movement of women into leadership took many titles: women and development in the 1960s, gender and development in the 1970s, and then women's human rights in the 1990s (Snyder, 2003). Some authors are now calling it the unfinished revolution as a reminder that feminization of society is still a work in progress (Hoff-Wilson, 1987;Snyder, 2003).…”

Women in the Workplace and Sex Discrimination Law:

“…Women in the workplace have reaped very real and substantial benefits from legal decisions in these two critical areas of sex discrimination jurisprudence. However, the ''revolution in the law'' (Hoff-Wilson 1987) which began in the 1970s is incomplete at best, and is currently in danger of being halted or reversed by the increasingly conservative executive and judicial branches of the United States government. Catherine MacKinnon captures the essence of this dilemma when she argues that women must be concerned that ''the law of sexual harassment will be taken away from us or turn into nothing or turn ugly in our hands' ' (1987, 105).…”