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Gender Bias In The Courtroom: Challenges Confronting Women Litigators And Trial Attorneys, Connie Lee
Gender Bias In The Courtroom: Challenges Confronting Women Litigators And Trial Attorneys, Connie Lee
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This paper examines the gender biases that women trial attorneys and litigators confront in the legal profession. Specifically, this paper analyzes how such biases undermine our legal system by attacking principles of fairness and equity and, consequently, jeopardizing the client's opportunity to be heard and access fair court proceedings.
Narrowing The Gender Pay Gap By Providing Equal Opportunities: The Need For Tenured Female Professors In Higher Stem Institutions In An Effort To Recast Gender Norms, Claire R. Rollor
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Abandoning Women To Their Rights: What Happens When Feminist Jurisprudence Ignores Birthing Rights, Rebecca A. Spence
Abandoning Women To Their Rights: What Happens When Feminist Jurisprudence Ignores Birthing Rights, Rebecca A. Spence
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The goals of the Article are twofold. First, this Article will demonstrate that while birthing rights issues have been familiar areas of concern for feminist scholarship on women's rights to privacy and equality, neglecting to integrate this work into the law school classroom fails to promote effective legal advocacy for pregnant women. The violation of women's rights during childbirth is a more common problem than reported legal opinions indicate, and few lawyers are prepared to protect clients prospectively or to vindicate women's rights post-childbirth.