The Women’s lawyer: Éliane Vogel Polsky and the Defrenne cases

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Abstract

The essay rebuilds the role of Eliane Vogel Polski, a Belgian lawyer, feminist and equal opportunities advocate, in the complicated judicial affair that opposed the hostess Gabrielle Defrenne and the Airline Sabena and that provoked three historic judgments of the European Court of Justice, which sanctioned the principle of equal pay treatment for workers of both sexes.

Keywords
Employment contract, social welfare, equal treatment, EU law, Court of Justice of European Union.