Up Against the Ivory Tower: a Memoir

Shyamala Rajender, breaking all restrictive rules, customs, mores and traditions inflicted on women in India, comes to America alone, with a song in her heart, wings on her feet and eight dollars in her pocket, seeking the American Dream. The University of Wyoming in Laramie granted her admission for graduate studies in chemistry that eventually would lead to gainful employment and economic independence. She and her family settle into their new life together in Laramie with things going swimmingly for them. Shyamala never imagined nor did she have a crystal ball or a soothsayer to predict that she would be embroiled in a ten-year long battle for gender equality, culminating in a precedent-setting victory in a first-of its-kind class-action lawsuit filed in a federal district court in Minnesota against a major midwestern university for gender discrimination. Her victory sent shock waves throughout the academic world and continues to have a major positive impact in changing their policies and procedures in faculty employment, promotions, tenure, salaries and other benefits. Realizing that no university would now touch her with a twenty foot pole, she changed her career path and has become a lawyer with her own office in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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