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Gillian is a Senior Staff Attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project, and the author of Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work.
Gillian Thomas
Gillian is a Senior Staff Attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Women’s Rights Project, and the author of Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work.