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Female Law Students, Gendered Self-Evaluation, And The Promise Of Positive Psychology, Dara Purvis
Female Law Students, Gendered Self-Evaluation, And The Promise Of Positive Psychology, Dara Purvis
Dara Purvis
For the last several decades, studies and surveys have shown that female law students perform worse and feel worse about their experiences in law school than do male students. Hidden in average figures, however, is a subgroup of female students who thrive. Positive psychology, focusing on what traits make people happy rather than how to alleviate depression, provides novel ideas of how to improve legal education for women without making accommodations specifically targeting gender.
Liberating Sexual Harassment Law, Lua Kamál Yuille
Liberating Sexual Harassment Law, Lua Kamál Yuille
Michigan Journal of Gender & Law
Sexual harassment law and the proposed solutions to that paradigm’s deficiencies teach a disheartening and peculiar lesson to women and gender performance minorities: “You may be disadvantaged at work because of your gender or your gender performance nonconformity. Discrimination against you is okay.” This albatross has inexplicably burdened sexual harassment law for the more than thirty-five years since it emerged as a redressable form of unlawful discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This Article coherently explains the reason for it. It makes a simple claim: Sexual harassment law has failed to eradicate workplace gender discrimination, …
Yes, Virginia, There Are Stupid Questions, David Spratt
Yes, Virginia, There Are Stupid Questions, David Spratt
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Alternative Spring Break 2015 Report, Roger Williams University School Of Law, Association For Public Interest Law
Alternative Spring Break 2015 Report, Roger Williams University School Of Law, Association For Public Interest Law
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