If the Supreme Court Abolishes Affirmative Action, Here’s What Women Need to Do - Commentary

Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, who served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1994 to 2016, writes:  Any day now the Supreme Court will decide two cases that will determine the future of affirmative action — one involving race-conscious admissions at the University of North Carolina and a companion case involving Harvard. Although debates around affirmative action have typically focused on people of color, the policy has also applied to gender, and women have been among affirmative action’s greatest beneficiaries. Now, after decades of allowing these programs in college admissions, the Supreme Court appears poised to weaken or dismantle efforts to make higher education more available to members of historically underrepresented minority groups.