![]() ![]() In the 1970s, MacKinnon, who has both a law degree and a doctorate in political science from Yale, successfully used federal Title VII law to argue that sexual harassment is sex discrimination, an interpretation that made her famous, and turned employment law on its ear. Cott, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America and Harvard’s Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History. Her specialty is “a scrutiny of power, and its unequal distribution,” said Nancy F. MacKinnon - tall, regal, and with a gift for precise talk - has star power, and drew 250 people to a jammed Radcliffe Gymnasium. ![]() She visited the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study last week (April 19) to deliver the annual Maurine and Robert Rothschild Lecture: “Women’s Status, Men’s States.” MacKinnon, who once taught at Harvard Law School, is a professor of law at the University of Michigan and one of the most widely cited legal scholars in the English language. MacKinnon gives it a new subtlety, adds legal context - and even includes a ray of hope. But lawyer, feminist author, and international equal rights advocate Catharine A. Worldwide, it is men - not their gender counterparts - who have power over families, clans, villages, cities, and nations. ![]()
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