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Gender in constitutional law is a comprehensive three volume collection of formative and influential scholarship in a dynamic area of legal development and social change. The voices and concerns of women have been largely absent from official constituting processes and decisive interpretations until recently historically constitutions have been almost exclusively man made and it shows. Gender in constitutional law is a comprehensive three volume collection of formative and influential scholarship in a dynamic area of legal development and social change compiling theoretical empirical and practical analyses from leading scholars judges and nongovernmental organizations around the world these volumes are comparative and . The united states constitution did not mention women or limit any of its rights or privileges to males the word persons was used which sounds gender neutral however common law inherited from british precedents informed the interpretation of the law and many state laws were not gender neutral