Introduction<br > "The Female equally with the Male I sing."<br > Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass<br > IT SVILL NOT come as a surprise to anyone even cursorily<br > acquainted with the work of courts and legislatures to be told that<br > the law has often accorded markedly different treatment to men<br > and women solely because of sex. Voting rights, jury service, right<br > to a separate domicile, causes of action for loss of consortium, ca-<br > pacity to enter into binding agreements and to sue and be sued,<br > change in citizenship upon marriage to an alien, change of name<br > upon marriage, age of attaining majority-these are only a few of<br > the many areas in which a person s sex has at times made the sole<br > difference in the treatment he or she would receive under tile law<br > in .the United States and other countries.<br > What is more, sexually discriminatory rules of law are by no<br > means relics of the past, mere historical curiosities. Despite file re-<br > moval of legal barriers to the right to vote by American women in<br > 19zo, despite the passage of Married Women s Property Acts<br > throughout the United States in the latter half of the nineteentb<br > century, and despite the prohibition against sex discrimination<br > in employment contained in the Civil Rights Act of 1964,1 sex-based<br > legal inequality continues to be a fact of life both here and abroad.<br > In most of the cantons of Switzerland and in Afghanistan, Iraq,<br >Jordan, and other countries, tile fundamental right to vote was,<br >as of 1964, still withheld from women.2 In France, as recently as<br > 1965, jurists and nonjurists alike were heatedly debating govern-<br >client proposals aimed at eliminating major instances of le,~,<br > lSCrlrumation affainst French .-,,~., s a.~A ~ .t ,. . ~ -"<br > ~... ~,~u m the united States,<br >as a result of piecemeal legislative enactments, the interpretive<br >role of judges reared in tile tradition of "natural male dominance,"4<br >and the existence of other complex factors to be examined here-<br >after, separate rules of law for men and women continue to reg-<br >
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