(DOWNLOAD) "Women in Leadership Positions in the Legal Profession: Do They Face a Glass Ceiling Or Clogged Pipeline, Or is It Now a Ceiling of Lifestyle Bubbles?" by Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Women in Leadership Positions in the Legal Profession: Do They Face a Glass Ceiling Or Clogged Pipeline, Or is It Now a Ceiling of Lifestyle Bubbles?
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 367 KB
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I. INTRODUCTION A twenty-seven-year-old female lawyer stood before a Chicago judge to present her case in his courtroom only to hear the judge admonish, "I don't think the ladies should be lawyers. I believe that you belong at home raising a family. Ladies do not belong down here." (1) The statement made the cover of the American Bar Journal, not in 1960, not in 1970. The year was 1986. Fast forward twenty-plus years to one of many articles on the topic of the stalled progress of women in the profession: "For women, the law remains a frustrating profession." (2) Women enter the legal profession in roughly equal numbers to men but few women reach the highest positions of status, power and economic reward.
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