Women SCOTUS cases

Bradwell v State of Illinois 1873

The right to practise law wasn’t one of the privileges of the 14th Amendmen

Minor v Happersett 1875

Voting was not a part of citizenship under the 14th A

Griswold v Connecticut 1965

fully removed the Comstock laws because of the right to privacy, in removing the lat state law that prohibited contraceptives for married couples

Muller v State of Oregon 1908

upheld 8hr day for women working- protective legislation that showed women’s weaker status to men

New York v Sanger 1918

Allows doctors to advise their married patients on contraceptives

US v One Package of Japanese Pessaries 1936

allowed the medicinal use of birth control

Fay v New York 1947

women are equally qualified to serve on a jury- though this is their choice

Hoyt v Florida 1961

women are much less likely to serve on juries in Florida

Weeks v Southern Bell 1965

Ruling against the restrictive labour laws and regulations for women working, opening male only jobs for women

Diaz v Pan American Airways 1968

gender isn’t a bona fide qualification of being a flight attendant

Roe v Wade 1973

Ruling that allowed women the right to an abortion up to 6 months

Pittsburgh Press v Pittsburgh Commission 1973

Ruled sex segregation in help wanted advertising isn’t allowed

Phillips v Martin Marietta Corp 1971

Private employers can’t refuse to hire women with pre-school age children

Reed v Reed 1971

state laws cannot make men the automatic administrator of wills

Eisenstadt v Baird 1972

Unmarried people can use contraceptives

Taylor v Louisiana 1975

denies the right to exclude women from juries

Sandra Day O’Connor , 1981

Reagan appointed the first woman the the Supreme Court