Title:
They don't want her there : fighting sexual and racial harassment in the American university / Carolyn Chalmers.
ISBN:
9781609388195
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Publication Information:
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]
Physical Description:
xiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Foreword / by Jean M. Jew -- Part I: A university gets the benefit of the doubt -- Tipping point -- Two women -- A university response -- Opportunity lost -- Part II: Recourse to the courts -- Hard decisions -- Kicked out -- Misogyny on offense -- Trial day by day -- Findings and experts -- A jury decides -- A judge decides -- Part III: Return to the university -- Another shoe drops -- Finally, a coming to terms -- Jean's legacy -- Afterword / by Martha Chamallas.
Summary:
"Decades before the #MeToo movement, Chinese American professor Jean Jew M.D. brought a lawsuit against the University of Iowa, alleging a sexually hostile work environment within the university's College of Medicine. As Jew gained accolades and advanced through the ranks at Iowa, she was met with increasingly vicious attacks on her character by her White male colleagues. After years of demoralizing sexual, racial, and ethnic discrimination, finding herself without any higher-up departmental support, and noting her professional progression beginning to suffer by the hands of hate, Jean Jew decided to fight back. Carolyn Chalmers was her lawyer. This book tells the inside story of pioneering litigation unfolding during the eight years of a university investigation, a watershed federal trial, and a state court jury trial. They Don't Want Her There is a brilliant, original work of legal history that is deeply personal and shows today's professional women just how recently some of our rights have been won--and at what cost." Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1264173428
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