Reshaping the Law

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
After 1968 the number of women who enrolled in law school jumped 50 percent. That demographic change has altered the legal profession and American law ever since. Fred Strebeigh tells the story of the female lawyers who took on sexual harassment, sexual discrimination and violence against women in the in the book Equal: Women Resehape American Law.

Event: Fred Strebeigh will be reading and signing books
Friday, February 27 at 12:00 pm
The Westport Public Library
20 Jesup Rd., Westport, Connecticut
For more information, visit the Westport Public Library website.

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