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Did Amy Bishop Kill Because Women Are Screwed in the Workplace?

No, that's the wrong lens for this story.

Posted Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, at 1:44 PM

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Emily Bazelon is a Slate senior editor and writes about law, family, and kids. Her forthcoming book, Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Empathy and Character. Find her at emilybazelon@gmail.com or on Facebook or Twitter.

Sam Thomas is a historian of gender and medicine in early modern Europe at the University of Alabama-Huntsville.

Photograph of Amy Bishop by Huntsville Police Department/AP Photo.