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14 Nov 2016, 12:25 am by INFORRM
The biggest story in the world this week was of course the election of Donald Trump as the next President of the United States. [read post]
24 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The Supreme Court made a big splash with its June 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. [read post]
12 Oct 2016, 9:00 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The release of the now-infamous 2005 video in which Donald Trump boasts about what he can do to women may have caused his campaign to spiral downward, but it also has sparked a national conversation about gender and sexual assault. [read post]
10 Oct 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Linda C. McClain
Remember the good old days when women might have opposed a Republican presidential candidate because they did not agree with his positions on women’s issues? [read post]
26 Sep 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
In the year 2000, a lifetime ago in family law terms, the Supreme Court issued an important decision, Troxel v. [read post]
15 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The gender wage gap is persistent, entrenched, and bemoaned. [read post]
1 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Although the Supreme Court’s endorsement in 2015 of the right of same-sex couples to marry clarified the status of same-sex couples—or at least their options vis-à-vis formal status—it left open a variety of questions about the formal parent-child relationships in same-sex-couple families. [read post]
4 Jul 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
The Supreme Court ended its most recent term with a bang—a ruling in which it struck down a Texas law that imposed special requirements on abortion clinics. [read post]
20 Jun 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
She makes it seem effortless, and we will all reap the benefits.Follow @JoannaGrossman Joanna L. [read post]
30 May 2016, 9:02 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
In the musical Hamilton, with which I am admittedly obsessed, the main character pleads with his own superego or perhaps some higher power to “show me how to say no to this” when he is first confronted with Mariah Reynolds, an ostensibly abandoned woman who pleads with Hamilton for help.Although Alexander Hamilton ends up in a long affair with her, and pays her husband for the privilege—a series of actions that contribute to his political undoing—he understands that what he… [read post]
23 May 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman and Grant Hayden
A recent editorial in the Tallahassee Democrat reported on, and praised, the students at Leon High School, who elected two women to serve as prom king and queen. [read post]
For example, as discussed in the recent spate of transgender bathroom controversies and discussed in a separate column today by Joanna Grossman, Title IX regulations expressly permit schools to provide different bathroom and locker room facilities on the basis of sex (although OCR has opined that schools do not have the power to dictate which facility a transgender student must use, and the U.S. [read post]
2 May 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
Bathrooms have been at the center of several recent controversies—most notably, of course, involving North Carolina’s HB2, an unconstitutional law that prevents transgender individuals from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity at any public school or university and in any governmental building. [read post]
12 Apr 2016, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
For better or worse, the modern face of polygamy in the United States is Kody Brown, a floppy-haired man with one legal wife, three “spiritual” wives, and more than a dozen kids. [read post]