Hannah-Beth Jackson started as an attorney in the mid-1970s, when very few women were in the field. She worked for years on issues like domestic violence and rape and served on the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls. In her interview, Jackson describes her decades-long ambition to pass equal pay legislation and how Oscar-award winning Patricia Arquette “lit the match” under her efforts as a California state senator. With help from a savvy female lobbyist, Jackson soon got her law passed and it became a template for equal pay laws around the country.
Smithsonian American Women's History Museum Profiles Santa Barbara's Hannah-Beth Jackson
In her interview, Jackson describes her decades-long ambition to pass equal pay legislation and how Oscar-award winning Patricia Arquette “lit the match” under her efforts as a California state senator.
