Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee Allabest. Today we will be discussing an article called Jane Crow and the Law, Sex Discrimination and Title VII by Polly Murray and Mary Eastwood. This article was published by the George Washington University Law Review in 1965 in response to the Civil Rights Act,

which had been passed the year before in 1964. And this title asks, quote, the extent to which

the Constitution may protect women against discrimination, and the interpretation of the sex

discrimination provisions of the equal and the interpretation of the sex discrimination provisions of the

Equal Employment Opportunity Title of the Civil Rights Act of 1964." End quote. This article was read,

and the argument later used by a rising star at the ACLU, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and it was used to convince the Supreme Court

that the Equal Protection Clause does indeed apply to women. So this is an exciting moment for our

history project because the podcast is now entering the civil rights era. And we're going to start

to hear from authors who have new and more expansive, more inclusive

concepts of women's experiences within patriarchal systems. And this itself is a landmark article.

It's written by brilliant and groundbreaking lawyers. And I'm so lucky to have a brilliant

lawyer here as my reading partner today to discuss this work. So I'm so lucky to have a brilliant lawyer here as my reading partner today to discuss

this work. So I'm super excited and want to welcome Rochelle Briscoe. Hi, Rochelle. Hi, Amy. So

glad to be here with you. Congratulations on the podcast. Thank you. I'm so excited to have you.

Well, let's, let's begin. We're going to talk a bit about the authors of this

document, Polly Murray and Mary Eastwood. And it's going to be a bit of a history lesson because we

need to talk about also what was going on in the country at the time that led them to write this

document. I'll start by taking Mary Eastwood's bio,

who was one of the authors of Jane Crow and the law. Mary Eastwood was born on June 1st,

1930. She was a white woman, a lawyer, and a civil rights advocate. She graduated from the

University of Wisconsin Law School in 1955 and then

moved to Washington, D.C. In 1960, she joined the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel,

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