Susan G. Mezey s Elusive Equality Women s Rights,...

In Elusive Equality: Women s Rights, Public Policy, and the Law, Susan G. Mezey touches several topics that highlight the trials and tribulations women have face over the year just to get one step closer to being considered â€Å"legally equaled† to a man. The author talks about the origin behind the discrimination of women rights using examples from multiply court cases and relates them to situations that women faced today such as women in the workplace, sexual harassment, abortion rights, and eliminating gender bias in education. The authors main point was to inform and stress the importance of seeking constitutional equality, and she used those topics as an example to where women were discriminated against and treated unfairly. She exemplified how such laws were used with sex-based classifications and that men and women were treated different but ironically the laws disadvantaged men more than women. Discussing the topic of women’s rights, the author exemplified many strengths and weakness throughout the book. One of the strengths of this book is the structure in which the author wrote it. Discussing a topic such as women’s rights can be pretty tricky because it is such a broad topic. I like that the author starts off with the legality matters of the subjects and takes it back to the early 1900s to explain how longevity of women discrimination and how long women rights advocates and other feminist movement had to fight in order for there to be equal opportunities for women.