Sexual Equality Under the Fourteenth and Equal Rights Amendments

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader

Journal: Washington University Law Review

Volume: 1979

First Page: 161

Year: 1979

Bluebook Citation: 1979 WASH. U. L. REV. 161 (1979)

Author: Ruth Bader Ginsburg: all 71 publications


Abstract

This Article discusses the two rubrics under which gender-based classifications in the law might be tested: first, the equal protection principle explicit in the fourteenth amendment and implicit in the fifth amendment; and second, the sex equality principle presented in the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.

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