![handle is hein.journals/bulron92 and id is 1 raw text is: ANTI-STEREOTYPING AND THE END OF MEN
BARBARA STARK*
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 1
I. STEREOTYPES AND THE CONSTITUTION .............................................. 2
A . R eproductive R ights..................................................................... 3
B . R eproductive W ork ....................................................................... 4
II. STEREOTYPES AND CEDAW ................................................................... 6
A . W om en's H um an Rights .............................................................. 6
B. Reproduction and Reproductive Work......................................... 7
III. ONCE INSURMOUNTABLE OBSTACLES ............................................... 10
C O N C L U SIO N ................................................................................................. . . 1 1
INTRODUCTION
As scholars have recently shown, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's earliest sex
discrimination work was grounded in anti-stereotyping theory.1 The particular
stereotype she challenged was that of males as breadwinners and females as
homemakers.2 As Cary Franklin notes, Justice Ginsburg's approach was
grounded in constitutional limits on the state's power to enforce sex-role
stereotypes. 3 While Justice Ginsburg herself has come to realize that anti-
* Professor of Law, Hofstra Research Fellow, and Associate Dean for Intellectual Life,
Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. Early versions of this Article were
presented at a faculty workshop and the Feminist Theory Conference in Baltimore. Thanks
to the participants, especially Michele Gilman, Laura Rothenberry, and Sabrina
Balgamwalla; to Hofstra University and Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra
University for generous support; to reference librarian Patricia Kasting; to American Society
of International Law and its Executive Director, Elizabeth Anderson; and to Clara
Brillembourg and Kristine Huskey, Co-Chairs of Women in International Law Interest
Group, for appointing me to the Society's observer delegation to the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women sessions at the United States in
2012; to Courtney Gesualdi for a helpful edit; and to Joyce Cox for her skill in preparing the
manuscript.
1 Neil S. Siegel & Reva B. Siegel, Struck by Stereotype: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on
Pregnancy Discrimination as Sex Discrimination, 59 DuKE L.J. 771 (2010); see also Ruth
Bader Ginsburg, A Postscript to Struck by Stereotype, 59 DuKE L.J. 799, 800 (2010) (stating
that [t]he authors have captured just what was on my mind and in my heart); Cary
Franklin, The Anti-Stereotyping Principle in Constitutional Sex Discrimination Law, 85
N.Y.U. L. REv. 83 (2010).
2 Siegel & Siegel, supra note 1, at 779.
3 Franklin, supra note 1, at 86.
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