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Book Review: Pregnant Pause: An International Legal Analysis Of Maternity Discrimination, Candace S. Kovacic-Fleischer
Book Review: Pregnant Pause: An International Legal Analysis Of Maternity Discrimination, Candace S. Kovacic-Fleischer
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Professor Kovacic-Fleischer reviewed Pregnant Pause, which collects legal documents relating to workplace discrimination with emphasis on maternity and paternity leave issues. The book suggests that the United States should provide paid maternity leave as most countries do and paternity leave as some countries do. No country provides women and men with equal amounts of paid family leave. Pregnant Pause explains that without maternity leave, women may lose jobs when they have a baby and/or may pay an economic “child penalty.” Pregnant Pause notes that depending on how much or little leave and pay is allocated to men, parental leave policies …
Confronting Expectations: Women In The Legal Academy, Christine Haight Farley
Confronting Expectations: Women In The Legal Academy, Christine Haight Farley
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A seemingly insurmountable barrier to women's success in legal academia is the way they are perceived. Numerous studies have shown that women are perceived as less competent than men and that the same work is evaluated more critically when it is thought to have been done by a woman than by a man. This problem exists in all aspects of life, but it is especially acute for women in professional roles, such as academics. Legal academia, however, seems to be particularly resistant to viewing women as equally competent. The article presents original empirical research that shows that student evaluations of …