Gillian Thomas is a Senior Staff Attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union's Women's Rights Project. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, and Slate, and she has been interviewed by NPR and the Wall Street Journal. She lives in Brooklyn.
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Best known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America's working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate 'because of sex.' But that simple phrase didn't m... SEE MORE