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Rethinking Gender Equality In The Legal Profession's Pipeline To Power: A Study On Media Coverage Of Supreme Court Nominees (Phase 1, The Introduction Week), Hannah Brenner, Renee Newman Knake
Rethinking Gender Equality In The Legal Profession's Pipeline To Power: A Study On Media Coverage Of Supreme Court Nominees (Phase 1, The Introduction Week), Hannah Brenner, Renee Newman Knake
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Three women now sit on the Supreme Court of the United States, and a fourth recently retired, suggesting the attainment of formal gender equality. Despite this appearance of progress, women remain significantly underrepresented in major leadership roles within the legal profession, where they face extensive gender bias and stereotyping. This gender bias and stereotyping is also leveraged against women who are featured in the media, illustrated vividly by coverage of the most recent Supreme Court nominations. Headlines from mainstream news, "Then Comes the Marriage Question" in the New York Times or "The Supreme Court Needs More Mothers" in the Washington …
The Gendered Aspects Of Social Justice Work And Occupational Segregation In The Legal Academy: A Review Of 2003, Barbara Cox
The Gendered Aspects Of Social Justice Work And Occupational Segregation In The Legal Academy: A Review Of 2003, Barbara Cox
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My service as chair of the Section on Women in Legal Education ("Section") was rather unusual. I started serving on the Executive Committee in 1999 and became Chair-Elect in 2001. Veryl Miles (Catholic) was Chair for 2001 but became Deputy Director of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in August that year, so I served out her term as Interim Chair from August 1 to December 31, 2001. Then I became Chair-Elect again in 2002 (because I was on sabbatical that year and could not serve as Chair) and Vernellia Randall agreed to step in as Chair. I served …