PART TWO
PREGNANCY (1972-1978)
5.What Happened to Sally Armendariz Could Not Happen to a Man
Sally Armendariz was injured in a car accident and suffered a miscarriage as a result. She requested state disability insurance but was denied because the program didn't pay benefits for “any disability arising in connection with a pregnancy.”
Happily, she worked for California Rural Legal Assistance.
One of those lawyers had a friend, Wendy Webster Williams, who clerked for Justice Raymond Peters of the California Supreme Court. The court took a case that found a California law that forbade the hiring of women to work as bartenders violated equal protection under both the state and federal constitution. Under Sail'er Inn – which actually came about because the bar wanted to have topless bartenders –sexual classifications would be treated as suspect and race and sex would be analogized. Sail'er Inn would be important in Armendariz's case.
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