Thursday, January 8, 1970

Linda Hirshman

Linda Hirshman
  • Birth:    April 26, 1944
  • Death:    
  • Nationality:   American
  • Education:   Phd in Law
  • Books Written
    • Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution
    • Get to Work: A Manifesto For Women of the World
    • The Woman's Guide to Law School and Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex
    • Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World
    • Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment
    • Chicago-Kent Law Review; Symposium on Classical Philosophy and the American Constitutional Order; Vol. 66, No. 1, 1990
    • The second arbitration trilogy: The federalization of arbitration law
  • Biography
Linda Redlick Hirshman (born April 26, 1944) is an American lawyer, pundit, and the author of Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution, Get to Work: A Manifesto For Women of the World, The Woman's Guide to Law School and Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex.   From Wikipedia

Goldberg criticized Hirshman for comments she made in a segment produced by Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes in October 2004. Hirshman's comments involved young, well-educated women who chose to give up high-paying, high-powered, and prestigious jobs in order to stay home and take care of their children. In the segment, Hirshman argued that this kind of decision would only lead to a lesser life for these women: "These women are choosing lives in which they do not use their capacity for very complicated work, they're choosing lives in which they do not use their capacity to deal with very powerful other adults in the world, which takes a lot of skill. I think there are better lives and worse lives."  From Wikipedia   She carries out this theme in her book, Sisters in Law

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