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Sex Discrimination in Employer-Sponsored Insurance Plans: A Legal and Demographic Analysis

Douglas Laycock

Co-author(s)

Lea Brilmayer ,

Richard W. Hekeler ,

Theresa A. Sullivan

Date

1980

Citation

Lea Brilmayer et al., Sex Discrimination in Employer-Sponsored Insurance Plans: A Legal and Demographic Analysis, 47 University of Chicago Law Review, 505–560 (1980).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

Douglas Laycock

Constitutional Law and Legal History

Center for the First Amendment

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