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**The first wave of trailblazing female law professors and the stage they set for American democracy.** When it comes to breaking down barriers for women in the workplace, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name speaks volumes for itself―but, as she clarifies in the foreword to this long-awaited book, there are too many trailblazing names we do not know. Herma Hill Kay, former Dean of UC Berkeley School of Law and Ginsburg’s closest professional colleague, wrote __Paving the Way__ to tell the stories of the first fourteen female law professors at ABA- and AALS-accredited law schools in the United States. Kay, who became the fifteenth such professor, labored over the stories of these women in order to provide an essential history of their path for the more than 2,000 women working as law professors today and all of their feminist colleagues. Because Herma Hill Kay, who died in 2017, was able to obtain so much first-hand information about the fourteen women who preceded her, __Paving the Way__ is filled with details, quiet and loud, of each of their lives and careers from their own perspectives. Kay wraps each story in rich historical context, lest we forget the extraordinarily difficult times in
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- Author
- Herma Hill Key, Patricia A. Cain
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520378957
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Law
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