WOMEN AND THE LAW
Brandeis, Susan
Women and the Law JURY SERVICE —By SUSAN BRANDEIS— This is ihe second of a series of four short articles contributed to The Progressive by a leading woman attorney on the modern status of Women...
...Women mindful of their responsibility for the manag"ment of the home have therefore been largely instrumental in obtaining the enactment of those laws which require, food materials and household equip-mcnt to conform with standards fixed by law...
...Judge Hitz, who presided at the trial of Ex-Secretary of the Interior Fall, recently concluded, in which four women acted as jurors, also speaks with enthusiasm of the aid women have rendered in the administration of justice by their service as Jurors before him...
...I quote from an address delivered by Judge Day of the supreme court of Ohio...
...In which he said, "I will confess to some personal prejudice which I had when women were first made eligible for Jury duty, thinking they would be more apt to be seized or influenced by prejudice, bias or sympathy or Influenced by something other than the law and facts...
...This condition has brought into being for their protection laws limiting the hours of labor, minimum wage laws, factory inspection laws and measures designed to protect them in their various occupations...
...themselves to obtaining more and better laws for themselves and the community at large...
...V. A. E. Austin of Cleveland, for forty years jury commissioner of that city, recently stated...
...Women have come to realize that by law largely can they receive the protection justly theirs, and therefore in ever increasing numbers have set...
...In criminal work they (women jurors) generally show better judgment and a clearer sense of justice always In cases having a prominent appeal for sympathetic effect...
...Mr...
...I am frank to say I have been agreeably surprised at their efficiency and am sure that the proper administration of the law has been helped by their service as jurors...
...For a like reason, women desiring a greater opportunity to participate in the administration and enforcement of the law have brought about the enactment of laws permitting them to serve as jurors in several of the states and the District of Columbia...
...Just as women owe the enactment of laws for their benefit and the recognition of their Independent status largely to the so-called industrial revolution, so women undoubtedly owe their participation in executive, legislative and Judicial departments of our government largely to the enactment of the nineteenth amendment to the federal constitution granting universal suffrage...
...In this field, praise of the highest order has been accorded women...
...Women and the Law JURY SERVICE —By SUSAN BRANDEIS— This is ihe second of a series of four short articles contributed to The Progressive by a leading woman attorney on the modern status of Women and the Law.—B C. L. The so-called industrial revolution brought about a condition under which most of the necessities of the home before then created wholly therein were more cheaply produced outside of it...
...The same industrial revolution made it possible for women to enter industry so that they are now in almost every field of human endeavor except those exacting great physical effort...
...While women, as I have indicated, are permitted to serve as jurors in only a few states, and the right is wholly denied them in the federal courts outside of the District of Columbia, yet so satisfactory has been their service as such, that I feel certain that within a comparatively short period of time service as jurors by women will be as universal as suffrage Is now...
Vol. 1 • January 1930 • No. 8
