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Making Rights Work: Legal Mobilization at the Agency Level
Author(s) -
Woodward Jennifer
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
law and society review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.867
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1540-5893
pISSN - 0023-9216
DOI - 10.1111/lasr.12155
Subject(s) - equal employment opportunity , commission , agency (philosophy) , mobilization , work (physics) , political science , law , labour law , public administration , sociology , mechanical engineering , social science , engineering
This article discusses how McCann's theory on legal mobilization and social change is generalizable to the legal decisions of agencies. I demonstrate how the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) routinely delayed and denied Title VII employment rights on the basis of sex and how this resulted in the formation of the National Organization for Women (NOW) to ensure that the sex provision of Title VII was enforced. The article also discusses the influence of NOW in shaping the first years of Title VII law and the organization's role in reversing EEOC decisions denying rights under the sex provision of the law.