JO FREEDMAN

Jo Freeman, who currently works in private legal practice, is admitted to the Bars of New York State, E.D.N.Y., S.D.N.Y., and the 2^nd Circuit in D.C. Ms. Freeman has a JD from NYU’s School of Law, a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and a BA in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Ms. Freeman has been an associate council for the Office of the Speaker at the New York State Assembly, an assistant district attorney for Kings County, New York, an associate political director for Cranston’s Presidential Campaign, and a law clerk to Magistrate David F. Jordan on Long Island. Her academic achievements include a congressional fellowship with the American Political Science Association, for the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources and Congressman Pat Schroeder, and a position as a staff associate for Employment Policy at the Brookings Institution in association with the Office of Research and Development, Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor. Ms. Freeman has also taught Political Science and American Studies at the State University of New York and has been a Research Assistant to political scientist Theodore J. Lowi at the University of Chicago. She has served as a national staff member on the McCarthy for President Campaign, as an assistant editor of Modern Hospital and a co- editor and photographer for a Chicago community newspaper.

Ms. Freeman’s research focuses on various aspects of feminism, especially gender inequality in the workforce and in the political arena. Some of her publications include the articles "Before Liddy Dole, there was the lady Senator from Maine," "Gender Gaps in Presidential Elections," "From Suffrage to Women's Liberation: Feminism in Twentieth Century America", in Women: A Feminist Perspective which Ms. Freeman also edited, and A Room at A Time: How Women Entered Party Politics, her latest book, published by Rowman and Littlefield this year, as well as numerous reviews of books devoted to these issues.

Tel: 718.693-3384
410 E. 8th St.
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11218
jfrbc@cunyvm.cuny.edu