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Gender, Law, And Culture In The Legal Workplace: A Chilean Case Study, Ann C. Mcginley Jan 2018

Gender, Law, And Culture In The Legal Workplace: A Chilean Case Study, Ann C. Mcginley

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"What has to change is the model of work. It can't be that in order to be a partner in a law firm, a woman has to learn to renounce her children. It is the men who have to renounce this work model and take equal responsibility for their children. It is very difficult for a society to do this. "

How do law and culture affect the behavior of actors on the ground? If culture and law interact, how does this interaction occur? This Article examines how gender and law affect lawyers working in a Latin American country Chile …