Summary
"Decades before the #MeToo movement, Chinese American professor Jean Jew M.D. brought a lawsuit against the University of Iowa, alleging a sexually hostile work environment within the university's College of Medicine. As Jew gained accolades and advanced through the ranks at Iowa, she was met with increasingly vicious attacks on her character by her White male colleagues. After years of demoralizing sexual, racial, and ethnic discrimination, finding herself without any higher-up departmental support, and noting her professional progression beginning to suffer by the hands of hate, Jean Jew decided to fight back. Carolyn Chalmers was her lawyer. This book tells the inside story of pioneering litigation unfolding during the eight years of a university investigation, a watershed federal trial, and a state court jury trial. They Don't Want Her There is a brilliant, original work of legal history that is deeply personal and shows today's professional women just how recently some of our rights have been won--and at what cost." Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Chalmers, Carolyn, 1946- They don't want her there. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]
Contents
Foreword / by Jean M. Jew
Part I: A university gets the benefit of the doubt
Tipping point
Two women
A university response
Opportunity lost
Part II: Recourse to the courts
Hard decisions
Kicked out
Misogyny on offense
Trial day by day
Findings and experts
A jury decides
A judge decides
Part III: Return to the university
Another shoe drops
Finally, a coming to terms
Jean's legacy
Afterword / by Martha Chamallas.