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WOMEN IN LAW: PROGRESSIVE LEGISLATION - AND UNEQUAL REALITY Collection of laws pertaining to women in Israel recently published by Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law The Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women at the Faculty of Law at Bar Ilan University has published a collection of laws and amendments pertaining to women in Israeli society, edited by Atara Koenigsburg, Esq. The Center was established to improve the status of women in Israel society by promoting information, research, and action. In the introduction to the collection, Dr. Ruth Halperin Kidri, head of the Center, writes that, already at first perusal, the collection exposes one aspect of the paradox that characterizes women and law in Israel, i.e., forward-thinking legislation, which contrasts with the bleak reality, which is far from egalitarian. The legislation dealing with the status of women in Israel is for the most part extremely advanced - except in matters of family law. But excluding this area - whose negative consequences reach far beyond the realm of the family - "women's legislation" in Israel" ranks among the most advanced in the world. Particularly notable are the legislative developments of the last decade; the legislation of the 90s among other things pushed the principle of essential equality into the standard legal framework of labor laws and other laws that influence the status of women. Despite all this, ads Dr. Halperin Kidri, a glance at the reality, however, proves that this advanced legislation isn't reflected in everyday practice. Indeed, the gap between legislation and reality in everything pertaining to the actual status of women in Israel is huge.
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