may in- voke the law, it is intriguing to discover that eight of the opin- ions handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court during the term ending in 1981 turned directly on issues of gender.
In fiscal year 1981, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed 129 sex discrimination suits and processed 2,303 complaints lodged under the Equal Pay Act. Several hun- dred "palimony" suits were working their way through the courts. An Oregon man was charged by his wife with rape (but acquitted)....