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Before the nation learned about workplace sexual harassment from Anita Hill, and decades before the #MeToo movement, Chinese American professor Jean Jew M.D. brought a lawsuit against the University of Iowa, alleging a sexually hostile work environment within the university’s College of Medicine.

As Jew gained accolades and advanced through the ranks at Iowa, she was met with increasingly vicious attacks on her character by her white male colleagues—implying that her sexuality had opened doors for her. After years of being subjected to demoralizing sexual, racial, and ethnic discrimination, finding herself without any higher-up departmental support, and noting her professional progression beginning to suffer by the hands of hate, Jean Jew decided to fight back. Carolyn Chalmers was her lawyer.

This book tells the inside story of pioneering litigation unfolding during the eight years of 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, each at the top of their game and part of the first generation of women in their fields. They Don’t Want Her There is a brilliant, original work of legal history that is deeply personal and shows today’s professional women just how recently some of our rights have been won—and at what cost.


Table of Contents
Foreword by Jean Y. Jew
Preface

Part I •• A University Gets the Benefit of the Doubt
  • Chapter 1 Tipping Point
  • Chapter 2 Two Women
  • Chapter 3 A University Response
  • Chapter 4 Opportunity Lost

Part II •• Recourse to the Courts
  • Chapter 5 Hard Decisions
  • Chapter 6 Kicked Out
  • Chapter 7 Misogyny on Offense
  • Chapter 8 Trial Day by Day
  • Chapter 9 Findings and Experts
  • Chapter 10 A Jury Decides
  • Chapter 11 A Judge Decides

Part III •• Return to the University
  • Chapter 12 Another Shoe Drops
  • Chapter 13 Finally, a Coming to Terms
  • Chapter 14 Jean’s Legacy

Afterword by Martha Chamallas
Appendix A Timeline of Significant Events
Appendix B Faculty Investigation Panel Report
Appendix C Executed Jury Verdict Form, Selected Pages
Acknowledgments
Notes

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    Publisher: University of Iowa Press
    Publication Date: 27/04/2022
    ISBN13: 9781609388195, 978-1609388195
    ISBN10: 1609388194
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    Higher education, tertiary education Sexual abuse and harassment Social discrimination and social justice

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    Before the nation learned about workplace sexual harassment from Anita Hill, and decades before the #MeToo movement, Chinese American professor Jean Jew M.D. brought a lawsuit against the University of Iowa, alleging a sexually hostile work environment within the university’s College of Medicine.

    As Jew gained accolades and advanced through the ranks at Iowa, she was met with increasingly vicious attacks on her character by her white male colleagues—implying that her sexuality had opened doors for her. After years of being subjected to demoralizing sexual, racial, and ethnic discrimination, finding herself without any higher-up departmental support, and noting her professional progression beginning to suffer by the hands of hate, Jean Jew decided to fight back. Carolyn Chalmers was her lawyer.

    This book tells the inside story of pioneering litigation unfolding during the eight years of 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, each at the top of their game and part of the first generation of women in their fields. They Don’t Want Her There is a brilliant, original work of legal history that is deeply personal and shows today’s professional women just how recently some of our rights have been won—and at what cost.


    Table of Contents
    Foreword by Jean Y. Jew
    Preface

    Part I •• A University Gets the Benefit of the Doubt
    • Chapter 1 Tipping Point
    • Chapter 2 Two Women
    • Chapter 3 A University Response
    • Chapter 4 Opportunity Lost

    Part II •• Recourse to the Courts
    • Chapter 5 Hard Decisions
    • Chapter 6 Kicked Out
    • Chapter 7 Misogyny on Offense
    • Chapter 8 Trial Day by Day
    • Chapter 9 Findings and Experts
    • Chapter 10 A Jury Decides
    • Chapter 11 A Judge Decides

    Part III •• Return to the University
    • Chapter 12 Another Shoe Drops
    • Chapter 13 Finally, a Coming to Terms
    • Chapter 14 Jean’s Legacy

    Afterword by Martha Chamallas
    Appendix A Timeline of Significant Events
    Appendix B Faculty Investigation Panel Report
    Appendix C Executed Jury Verdict Form, Selected Pages
    Acknowledgments
    Notes

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