“We the People” is the opening salvo of the Constitution.  However, the definition of the people was very limited at the time.  And women, among others, were not part of the equation.  The Constitution was aspirational and later amended to include the previously excluded and while women fought, alongside many men, to take their rightful place in our society, there is a long-stalled amendment to the Constitution codifying those rights.  That issue, as we discuss, in this podcast is once again a subject of vigorous debate.  What’s not at issue is how carefully and thoroughly our guest, Professor Jill Hasday of the University of Minnesota Law School details the history and modern challenges for women in America.  In her book “We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality.”, she shines a bright light on a long line of judges, politicians, and other influential voices who have ignored women’s struggles for equality or distorted them beyond recognition by wildly exaggerating American progress.  Our discussion of the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs’ decision, and its implications for other privacy issues, must be heard if you want to fully understand what’s happening in this space.