Women in the Workplace — How Far We've Come (Part I)

Deal Us In · Jan 28, 2021 · 30m

Looking back at the history of working women makes it clear how far we’ve come as a society — and in law specifically — but also how far there is to go.

As McGuireWoods Partner Phyllis Young puts it in this episode: “It's almost like we started with these bigger issues and it's gotten more refined as far as how we're treating women in the workplace.”

After the 19th Amendment gave some women the right to vote in 1920, it still took an uphill struggle to make the law apply in practice for women of color.

At the same time, women were fighting for equal pay.

Legislation like the 1963 Equal Pay…