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Jill Hasday

@jillhasday.bsky.social

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Law Professor, University of Minnesota. Constitutional Law • Family Law • Sex Equality. Three books—We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality, Intimate Lies and the Law, and Family Law Reimagined.

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · Mar 13

I am delighted to report that today is publication day for my new book! In a nation whose Constitution purports to speak for “We the People,” too many of the stories that powerful Americans tell about law and society include only #WeTheMen. Check out my website for more information: jillhasday.com

We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 3h

I'm excited to be speaking today at the Women’s Organization of the Minnesota Historical Society about my new book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality. I'm looking forward to the conversation! #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 3h

On this day in 1881, Esther Lape was born. She led the effort to win Senate approval for U.S. participation in the Permanent Court of International Justice, which lost by 7 votes in 1935. She also fought the American Medical Association in mobilizing for universal health insurance. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 1d

This was a fun conversation!

Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 1d

Professor @jillhasday.bsky.social, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Centennial Professor in Law, appeared on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast to discuss her book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality.
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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 1d

On this day in 2025, Trump continues to block placing Harriet Tubman’s image on the front of the $20 bill but wants to place his own portrait on a $1 coin. #WeTheMen

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

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Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 1d

Professor @jillhasday.bsky.social, Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Centennial Professor in Law, was interviewed on @mprnews.org about presidential powers and President Trump’s authority to deploy troops domestically.
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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 1d

Want to know more about whether Trump has legal authority to deploy troops domestically? I spoke with @MPRnews.

www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

Legal expert: Using Federal troops domestically isn't unprecedented, but it comes with risk

President Donald Trump has deployed troops to Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and threatened other Democratically-led cities over what he calls "out-of-control” crime.

www.mprnews.org

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 1d

On this day in 1920, Kathryn Clarenback was born. She became a co-founder of the National Org. for Women & the driving force behind planning the 1977 National Women’s Conference, the first such conference the federal government had ever sponsored. #WeTheMen
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This Woman’s Work | On Wisconsin

Kathryn Clarenbach ’41, MA’42, PhD’46 is largely unknown, but her name belongs alongside those of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem in the history of modern feminism.

onwisconsin.uwalumni.com

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Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 2d

@jillhasday.bsky.social was interviewed by ABC News about Hegseth's speech to military leadership last week, where he announced the implementation of ‘gender-neutral’ fitness standards for the military with men and women req to meet the same minimum physical performance benchmarks. z.umn.edu/arj5

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 2d

Wondering how the Trump Administration’s antifeminism fits within the long history of women’s struggles for equality? I spoke with @NewBooksNetwork about my book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality. #WeTheMen

newbooksnetwork.com/we-the-men

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 2d

On this day in 1917, Fannie Lou Hamer was born. She became a civil rights crusader who risked her life in mobilizing to make the right to vote a practical reality for people of color. She asked: “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave?” #WeTheMen

Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 3d

On this day in 2025, SecDef Hegseth seems unenthusiastic about women in the military. I spoke to @ABC: “Obviously, physical fitness can be important for many military roles, but it’s not the only thing that’s important. You don’t win a war through push-ups.” #WeTheMen

abcnews.go.com/Health/hegse...

What Hegseth's military fitness rules may mean for women servicemembers

Following Hegseth's speech on military fitness standards, some expressed concern there’s a false narrative only female servicemembers aren't meeting certain standards.

abcnews.go.com

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 4d

More than a third of the world's countries have had a female leader. Japan is poised to be next. Meanwhile, the U.S.'s line of male presidents remains unbroken. #WeTheMen

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Sanae Takaichi is set to become Japan’s first female prime minister

The new leader will take the helm of the world’s fourth-largest economy at a time of unusual political instability, rising prices and increasing regional tensions.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 4d

On this day in 1908, Eleanor Flexner was born. She became a pioneering women’s historian who wrote “Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States” (1959). The New York Times did not publish an obituary when she died in 1995. #WeTheMen

www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/o...

Overlooked No More: Eleanor Flexner, Pioneering Feminist in an Anti-Feminist Age (Published 2020)

www.nytimes.com

Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 5d

On this day in 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune opened her first school for African American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. She went on to found Bethune-Cookman College and spend a lifetime advocating for civil rights. #WeTheMen

Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 6d

On this day in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson had a massive stroke that left him severely impaired. His wife, Edith, secretly took over much of her husband’s work for the rest of his term. #WeTheMen

www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 7d

On this day in 1918, the Senate failed to pass the 19th A prohibiting sex-based disenfranchisement. Alice Paul, who led the more militant wing of the woman suffrage movement, was undaunted, contending: “This defeat is only temporary.” The Senate finally passed the 19th A on June 4, 1919. #WeTheMen

Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 8d

On this day in 1889, the Wyoming state convention approved a constitution that extended equal voting rights to men and women. By 1914, all states west of the Rockies had adopted woman suffrage, while Kansas was the only woman suffrage state east of the Rockies. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 9d

I am excited to be hosting @energylawprof.bsky.social today at the @umnlawschool.bsky.social Public Law Workshop. He will be speaking about his paper, “Analog Regulation.” I am looking forward to the conversation!

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 9d

On this day in 2005, John Roberts became Chief Justice. Since then, US confidence in the Supreme Court has plummeted to historic lows. Many factors have contributed, including the Court’s decision to overrule Roe v. Wade and deny women the constitutional right to control their own lives. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 9d

On this day in 1839, Frances Willard was born. She became a social reformer and the president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the nineteenth century’s largest U.S. organization of women. Willard championed woman suffrage and also mobilized to raise marriage ages for girls. #WeTheMen

Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 10d

On this day in 1918, Sen Christie Benet (D-SC) announced his opposition to amending the constitution to prohibit sex-based disenfranchisement. This meant that the amend. could not pass the Senate that year. The 19th A finally passed the Senate on June 4, 1919, with just 2 votes to spare. #WeTheMen

Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 11d

On this day in 1960, British suffragist Sylvia Pankhurst died. Her radical tactics influenced the more militant wing of the American woman suffrage movement. Alice Paul, Lucy Burns & their colleagues were assaulted & arrested for picketing the White House. #WeTheMen

www.vox.com/21356259/19t...

How the radical British suffragettes influenced America’s campaign for the women’s vote

There are echoes of the British movement in America’s pickets and protests in the fight for the 19th Amendment.

www.vox.com

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 12d

On this day in 1971, Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, announced her intent to run for President. She declared that she was “Unbought and Unbossed” and promised “to represent all Americans.” #WeTheMen

history.house.gov/Blog/2020/Se...

Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 13d

I am excited to be hosting @gowder.io today at the @umnlawschool.bsky.social Public Law Workshop. He will be speaking about his paper, “The Collective Defense Second Amendment, from the Black Vigilance Committees to the Deacons." I am looking forward to the conversation!

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 13d

On this day in 1957, nine black students began their first full day of classes at previously all-white Central High in Little Rock. Entry required an armed escort from the U.S. Army, over the objection of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. Six girls were part of the “Little Rock 9.” #WeTheMen