Prologue: Toward Equality (1968)
For a woman who wanted to become an American lawyer, the time before 1968 was a time of inequality. If you entered Harvard Law School before 1950, for example, you were male. Although some American law schools had admitted a trickle of women for decades, prior to 1950 Harvard practiced perfect discrimination: No woman need apply.
By 1967, the percentage of women in the nation's law schools had reached only about 5%. 1968 changed American law. The United States government announced plans to take away men's draft exemptions for attending law school.
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[This is the opening of the prologue of Fred Strebeigh, Equal: Women Reshape American Law (W. W. Norton, 2009), listed in the Norton catalog and also at Amazon.com.]