Jill Hasday on Women's Voices in the Women's Rights Movement

In this episode, Jill Hasday, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Centennial Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, discusses her new book, "We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality," which is published by Oxford University Press. Hasday explains how men have historically used rhetoric to minimize the role of women in claiming rights for women and discount the need for a women's rights movement. She discusses many different historical episodes, including the fight for the 19th Amendment, inclusion of sex discrimination in Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the ongoing struggle to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to show how women were systematically written out of women's history. And she explains why it's important to commemorate the role of women in order to continue the fight for equal rights. Hasday is on Twitter and Bluesky.

This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social.

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