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Medicalizing Gender: How The Legal And Medical Professions Shaped Women’S Experiences As Lawyers, Kathleen Darcy
Medicalizing Gender: How The Legal And Medical Professions Shaped Women’S Experiences As Lawyers, Kathleen Darcy
Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice
Despite significant progress, women in the legal profession still
have not advanced into positions of power at near the rate in which
they saturate the legal market. Scholars agree that simply waiting for
parity is not sufficient, and, thus, they have identified many of the
barriers that contribute to women’s difficulties. To date, however, the
role that scientific and medical understandings play on the evolution of
law, and on women as lawyers, has not received examination until
now. To this end, I posit that medicine played a significant role in
shaping societal expectations and assumptions about gender, and was
similarly …