Joan C. Williams is a distinguished professor of law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law and director of its Center for WorkLife Law. She is author of What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know and White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America.
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