Title They don't want her there : fighting sexual and racial harassment in the American University / Carolyn Chalmers

Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages) : illustrations Contents Foreword / by Jean M. Jew -- Part I: A university gents the benefit of the doubt. Tipping point -- Two women -- A university response -- Opportunity lost -- Part II: Resort 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 Summary "Before the nation learned about workplace sexual harassment from Anita Hill, and decades before the #MeToo movement, Chinese American professor Jean Y. Jew M.D. brought a lawsuit alleging a sexually hostile work environment in the College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. A young and ambitious researcher, Jew worked closely with her older male mentor upon arriving at the university. As she gained accolades and advanced through the ranks, she was met with increasingly vicious attacks on her character-implying that her sexuality had opened doors for her, and subjecting her to all manner of obscene gossip, even a lewd limerick scrawled on the men's bathroom wall. After years of a demoralizing combination of sexual, racial, and ethnic discrimination from the white men populating her department and determining the trajectory of her career, Jean Jew decided to fight back, and Carolyn Chalmers was her lawyer. This memoir tells the story of groundbreaking litigation unfolding over eight years through a University investigation, a watershed federal trial and a state court jury trial. In the face of a university determined to defeat them and maintain the status quo, Jew and Chalmers forged an exceptional relationship between a lawyer and a client, two professional women, each at the top of their game and part of the first generation of women in their fields. The result was extraordinary: a landmark civil rights battle at the"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2022) Subject Jew, Jean Y. -- Trials, litigation, etc SUBJECT Jew, Jean Y. fast Subject Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. University of Iowa -- Trials, litigation, etc SUBJECT University of Iowa fast Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine fast Subject Sexual harassment in universities and colleges -- Iowa Sexual harassment of women -- Law and legislation -- United States Sexual harassment -- Investigation -- United States Sex discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation -- United States Discrimination in higher education -- Law and legislation -- United States BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General Discrimination in higher education -- Law and legislation Sex discrimination in employment -- Law and legislation Sexual harassment in universities and colleges Sexual harassment -- Investigation Sexual harassment of women -- Law and legislation Iowa United States Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021028954 ISBN 9781609388201 1609388208

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