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As recently as 1970, a Supreme Court in New York state used this language in De Kosenko vs. Brandt, a decision which upheld the exclusion of women from jury service: "Her lament should be addressed to the ' 19th Amendment State of Womanhood' which prefers cleaning and cooking, rearing of children and telesion soap operas, bridge and canasta, the beauty parlor and shopping, to becoming embroiled in plaintiff's problems."

There is no record of whether [Joanie Mahoney] spends time with canasta or soap operas. And readers may agree or disagree with her policies. She has, however, been handed a golden campaign issue: Joanie Mahoney, mom; vote for me, I have children. On May 3 Mahoney announced she will challenge [Dale Sweetland] in a primary.

The late U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan wrote eloquently about sex discrimination in laws he believed should be overturned. He called the different treatment of men and women, fathers and mothers, "romantic paternalism" that put "women not on a pedestal but in a cage."

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See Joanie Run

As recently as 1970, a Supreme Court in New York state used this language in De Kosenko vs. Brandt, a decision which upheld the exclusion of women from jury service: "Her lament should be addressed to the ' 19th Amend...

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