In Reed v. Reed (1971), the Court ruled that any "arbitrary" gender-based classification violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This was the first time the Court declared any law unconstitutional on the basis of gender discrimination. Personally I agree with the ruling because I believe in all forms of society and work today there is still some type of gender discrimination. Still to this day, women earn about 79 cents for every dollar men earn, a gender wage gap of 21%. Reed vs. Reed was the first case to define and touch on gender discrimination that led to later cases expanding women's rights. (Edwards 163-164).
This case was also the first time that Equal Protection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment was used to prevent discrimination on the basis of sex. This case was also ruled unanimously, which speaks volumes for women's rights.
I completely agree with the ruling of this case. I believe that this case helped tremendously with gender discrimination, even though it still does exist. Continuing to rule on things like this will help women and men become equal in the eye of the law and when it comes to jobs.
I also agree with the ruling of the Reed v. Reed. Women and men should be treated as equal in society and under the law. This court decision paved the way for other men and women to successfully challenge other discriminatory laws under the Equal Protection Clause. Providing widows, but not widowers, survivor’s benefits based on their spouses’ contributions to Social Security; granting men control over marital property; providing welfare benefits to a family when a father, but not a mother, was unemployed; and excluding women from public military colleges were struck down because of the efforts of Sally Reed.
In Reed v. Reed (1971), the Court ruled that any "arbitrary" gender-based classification violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This was the first time the Court declared any law unconstitutional on the basis of gender discrimination. Personally I agree with the ruling because I believe in all forms of society and work today there is still some type of gender discrimination. Still to this day, women earn about 79 cents for every dollar men earn, a gender wage gap of 21%. Reed vs. Reed was the first case to define and touch on gender discrimination that led to later cases expanding women's rights. (Edwards 163-164).
ReplyDeleteThis case was also the first time that Equal Protection clause in the Fourteenth Amendment was used to prevent discrimination on the basis of sex. This case was also ruled unanimously, which speaks volumes for women's rights.
DeleteI completely agree with the ruling of this case. I believe that this case helped tremendously with gender discrimination, even though it still does exist. Continuing to rule on things like this will help women and men become equal in the eye of the law and when it comes to jobs.
DeleteI also agree with the ruling of the Reed v. Reed. Women and men should be treated as equal in society and under the law. This court decision paved the way for other men and women to successfully challenge other discriminatory laws under the Equal Protection Clause. Providing widows, but not widowers, survivor’s benefits based on their spouses’ contributions to Social Security; granting men control over marital property; providing welfare benefits to a family when a father, but not a mother, was unemployed; and excluding women from public military colleges were struck down because of the efforts of Sally Reed.
DeleteI agree with the ruling of this case because a person can do something just as well as another person if not better, no matter the sex of that person.
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