Download or read book Legalizing Gender Inequality written by Robert L. Nelson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-28 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legalizing Gender Inequality challenges existing theories of gender-based pay inequality. The book argues that earnings differentials cannot be explained adequately by market forces or society-wide sexism and that the court's reliance upon these theories has tended to legitimate and to legalize a crucial dimension of gender inequality.