Forty years ago sex discrimination in education and the judicial system was not just legal but respectable, or “only natural.” Sex discrimination in employment had just recently been prohibited by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and employers could still engage in it with social if not formal, legal impunity. Only the most dyspeptic feminist would deny that we have made giant strides toward equality since then, and Fred Strebeigh’s compassionate and engrossing book celebrates the women who systematically removed historic legal roadblocks from our path.