| Abstract: | Since 1971 the Supreme Court has decided a large number of cases presenting questions of gender-based discrimination and other issues of interest to feminists. While the cases have been decided on various constitutional and statutory grounds, it is argued that the Court, on the whole, has been guided by the principle of androgyny-defined here as the absolute equality of the sexes as concerns expectations, opportunities, choices, and treatment in private and public life. Cases which appear to be contradictory prove, upon closer examination, not to be so exceptional as to disprove the thesis of this paper. |
