Frances Raday

Frances Raday was born in 1944

Frances Raday was born on 29 January 1944 in Manchester, England, and grew up in the UK. She studied law at the London School of Economics.

After her law degree she worked as a researcher at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law. From 1966 to 1968 she taught at the University of East Africa in Tanzania, where she set up a labor law course. In 1968 she moved to Israel and earned her doctorate at the Hebrew University.

At the Hebrew University she held the Lieberman Chair in Labor Law and edited the Israel Law Review. She later became a professor at the Colman College of Management Academic Studies, where she heads the Concord Center and the graduate programs. Her research deals with equality rights of disadvantaged groups such as women, workers and minorities.

Since 1979 she has represented workers in labor courts and petitioners in Israel's Supreme Court, including Women of the Wall. She was founding chair of the Israel Women's Network Legal Center and served on UN bodies on discrimination against women. She was married to Uri Raday and is a mother of 3.