Best known like a monumental achievement from the civil rights motion, the 1964 Civil Rights Work also revolutionized the lives of America’s working women. Name VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate ‘because of sex.’ But that easy phrase didn’t mean very much until ordinary women began using the law to obtain justice on the job-and some took their fights all the way to the Supreme Courtroom. Among them were Ida Phillips, refused an assembly series work because she got a preschool-age child; Kim about Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at the job Rawlinson, who fought to become jail guard-a ‘man’s job’; Mechelle Vinson, who brought a lawsuit for intimate misuse before ‘sexual harassment’ even experienced a name; and most recently, Peggy Youthful, UPS truck driver, forced to consider an unpaid leave while pregnant because she asked for a short-term reprieve from weighty lifting.

These unsung heroines’ victories, and those of the additional women profiled in Gillian Thomas’s Due to Sex, dismantled a Mad Guys world where women could just hope to play helping roles; where sexual harassment was ‘just the way stuff are’; and where pregnancy meant obtaining a pink slip.

Through first-person accounts and stunning narrative, Because of Sex tells the story of how one law, our highest court, and some tenacious women changed the American workplace forever.