Gender in the Legal Profession: Fitting or Breaking the Mould - Couverture souple

Brockman, Joan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0774808357 ISBN 13 : 9780774808354

Editeur : University of British Columbia Press, 2002

Synopsis

The history of the legal profession in Canada and elsewhere is one of the exclusion of women, Aboriginals, ethnic and racial minorities, and those from less privileged classes. Based on face-to-face interviews with 50 women and 50 men called to the Bar in British Columbia during the past 3-7 years, Joan Brockman has studied this phenomenon and tried to determine reasons why such exclusion has been practised and what its effects have been, particularly with respect to women. Much of the discrimination still experienced stems from expectations that women, in particular, will assume primary responsibilities for child care, elder care, emotional stability in the home, household management, and other domestic matters. In addition, some women still experience sexual harassment and discrimination even if they have managed to reduce or avoid additional domestic responsibilities. Until there is significant change in how women are perceived in relation to domestic duties, it is unlikely that they will attain equality within the legal profession. The profession will only change when perceptions of the family change, at which point women will not only fit the mould at work, but men also will fit the mould at home.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joan Brockman teaches in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of British Columbia Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0774808357
• ISBN 13: 9780774808354
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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• Personne responsable: non disponible