UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR FRANCES PERKINS, Secretary MARY ANDERSON, Director The Legal Status of Women in the United States of America BULLETIN OF THE Women's Bureau, No. 157—UNITED STATES SUMMARY UNITED STATES WASHINGTON : 1941 y the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. • Price 15 cents CONTENTS Page Contemporary Justice and Woman_ Part 1. Introduction and Historical Background.-- Functions of the courts in administration of law--. Steps to soften the rigor of the common law----- Related common law of the prerevolutionary period.-- Part II. General Summary Statement- Summary of status under Federal law- Summary of major sex distinctions in the laws. Part III. Present Legal Status of Women in Summary Form - Provisions specially affecting women_- Summary of State laws, by topic, all States combined.. A. Glossary of legal terms used. Note.-Abstracts for the 48 States and the District of Columbia, published as Women's Bureau Buls. 157–1 (Alabama) to 157–49 (Wyoming), are available |