New York Times reports Judith P. Vladeck, a prominent labor lawyer and ardent advocate of women’s rights in the workplace, particularly on college campuses, died on Monday in Manhattan. She was 83 and lived in Manhattan.
As the women’s movement gained footing, Ms. Vladeck turned her attention to workplace discrimination. In 1975, she represented Val Winsey, a professor at Pace University who had been denied tenure. When the university’s lawyers argued that Professor Winsey was a troublemaker who devoted too much of her time to challenging the system, Ms. Vladeck responded, “The only way women are tolerated is if they are supine, silent and submissive.”
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