RELATED SITES

• Abortion Law Homepage
• American Civil Liberties Union - Women's Rights
• The Center for Reproductive Law and Policy
• Multicultural Women Attorney Network
• Legal Momentum - The Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund
• National Women's Law Center
• U.S. Department of Labor, Women's Bureau
• WomensLaw.org
• Women's Law Project
• Women's Legal History Biography Project - Stanford Law School

MASSACHUSETTS LAWS

To search the unofficial Massachusetts General Laws for free, go to the Massachusetts General Court Website

• Chapter 3: Section 66. Commission on the status of women; membership; powers; funding.
• Chapter 7: Section 40N. Minority and women-owned businesses; reserved contracts for capital facility projects.
• Chapter 23A: Section 41. State office of minority and women business assistance; establishment.
• Chapter 111: Section 24D. Pregnant women, infants with inadequate health insurance coverage; medical assistance.
• Chapter 111I: Section 1. WIC program; administration and funding.
• Chapter 112: Section 12M. Abortion; pregnancy existing for 24 weeks or more.
• Chapter 112: Section 12S. Consent to abortion; form; persons less than eighteen years of age.
• Chapter 118E: Section 10. Medical care and assistance for pregnant women.
• Chapter 118E: Section 10D. Required coverage for treatment of breast and cervical cancer
• Chapter 175: Section 47G. Cytologic screening and mammographic examination expense benefits.
• Chapter 176G: Section 4O Outpatient services; hormone replacement therapy for peri and post menopausal women; contraceptive services; approved prescription contraceptive drugs or devices; exception

FEDERAL LAWS

When searching the United States Code for topics relating to women, also check the following areas: Abortion, Battered Women and Children - Domestic Violence, Contraceptives and Contraception, Dating Violence, Sexual Assault, Stalking and Pregnancy.

• Title 42, Chapt. 136, Subchapter III -- Violence Against Women: Part A, Safe Streets for Women; Part B, Safe Homes for Women; Part C, Civil Rights for Women; Part D, Equal Justice for Women in Courts; Part E, Violence Against Women Act Improvements; Part F, National Stalker and Domestic Violence Reduction.
• Title 15, Sec. 7105 -- National Women's Business Council
• Title 18, Sec 248 -- Freedom of access to clinic entrances
• Title 42, Sec 285a-6 -- Breast and Gynecological Cancers
• Title 42, Sec. 287d --Office of Research on Women's Health
• Title 42, Sec 1885a --Women in science and engineering; support of activities by Foundation for promotion, etc.
• Title 42, Sec. 14013 -- Report On Battered Women's Syndrome

LAW REVIEWS

• The Berkeley Women's Law Journal
• Buffalo Women's Law Journal
• Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
• Duke Journal of Gender Law and Policy
• The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law
• Harvard Women's Law Journal
• Hastings Women's Law Journal
• Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law- American University
• Michigan Journal of Gender and the Law
• Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies
• Texas Journal of Women and the Law
• Yale Journal of Law and Feminism

LAW SCHOOL

For more resources, search the library's online catalog

• American Bar Association, Commission On Women In The Profession, Don't Just Hear It Through The Grapevine: Studying Gender Questions At Your Law School. Chicago, IL : American Bar Association, 1998.
  (KF299.W6 D66 1998) LAW TREATISES --5th FLOOR
• Lani Guiner, et al, Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law School and the Institutional Change. Boston : Beacon Press, 1997.
  (KF 287. G85 1997) LAW TREATISES -- 5th FLOOR
• Linda Hirshman, A Women's Guide to Law School. New York : Penguin Books, 1999. (KF283 .H57 1999) LAW TREATISES -- 5th FLOOR

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• The Commission On Women In The Profession (American Bar Association)
• National Association of Women Judges
• National Association of Women Lawyers
• National Conference of Women's Bar Associations
• Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please email: Diane D'Angelo, Reference Librarian.

Last modified September 19, 2006.