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Galen Sherwin

Former Senior Staff Attorney

桃子视频Women鈥檚 Rights Project

Bio

Galen Sherwin was a Senior Staff Attorney at the Women鈥檚 Rights Project of the ACLU. She focused on gender equality in education and employment, and litigated and conducted advocacy around issues related to pregnancy discrimination, the rights of breastfeeding workers, sex stereotypes, single-sex education, and athletics.

Sherwin began her career as a legislative aide to a New York State Senator, and then served as President of the New York City Chapter of the National Organization for Women and served on the NOW national board of directors. During law school, she worked at Sanctuary for Families/Center for Battered Women鈥檚 Legal Services and at the Center for Reproductive Rights. Upon law school graduation, Sherwin clerked for the Honorable Gerard E. Lynch, who was then in the Southern District of New York, and then joined the Center for Reproductive Rights as a Blackmun Fellow, where she focused on protecting minors鈥 rights to reproductive health care and abortion. She went on to join the New York Civil Liberties Union as a Staff Attorney in the Reproductive Rights Project, where she later became the project director.

Sherwin is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was a Stone Scholar and recipient of the Rosenman Prize for academic excellence in public law, and of Yale University, where she was awarded the Steere Prize in Women鈥檚 Studies.


Featured work

Feb 2, 2015

Firing a Mom Because She's Breastfeeding Is Sex Discrimination

Firing a Mom Because She's Breastfeeding Is Sex Discrimination

Dec 4, 2014

Treating School Kids Differently Based on Sex = Discrimination

Treating School Kids Differently Based on Sex = Discrimination

May 15, 2014

Busy Boys, Little Ladies - Wait, What Decade Are We In Again?

Busy Boys, Little Ladies - Wait, What Decade Are We In Again?

Mar 19, 2014

No One Tells Mamma to Just Go Home!

No One Tells Mamma to Just Go Home!

Jan 15, 2014

Sexism Is Alive and Well on the Interwebs

Sexism Is Alive and Well on the Interwebs

Jun 4, 2013

Appeals Court Holds That Breastfeeding Is 鈥淩elated To Pregnancy鈥 (Or Why My Four-Year-Old Understands Basic Biology Better Than Some Judges)

Appeals Court Holds That Breastfeeding Is 鈥淩elated To Pregnancy鈥 (Or Why My Four-Year-Old Understands Basic Biology Better Than Some Judges)

Jun 21, 2012

Visiting Capitol Hill in Celebration of 40 Years of Title IX

Visiting Capitol Hill in Celebration of 40 Years of Title IX

Jun 19, 2012

Congratulations Moms. This One Is for Us!

Congratulations Moms. This One Is for Us!

Jun 18, 2012

Victory! Nursing Mothers Taking the LSAT Finally Catch a Break

Victory! Nursing Mothers Taking the LSAT Finally Catch a Break

Mar 1, 2012

How Do I Marginalize Thee? One High School Principal Counts the Ways

How Do I Marginalize Thee? One High School Principal Counts the Ways