Gender in practice : a study of lawyers' lives / John Hagan, Fiona Kay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hagan, John, 1946- author.

Kay, Fiona, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women lawyers--Canada.

Women lawyers.

Women lawyers--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 235 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work analyses the current status of women in the law, drawing on two major studies in Canada in 1985 and 1990, and relating the findings to women and the legal profession in the United States. One of the largest studies of women lawyers yet undertaken, this book offers insights based on empirical data into the status of women in the law.

Contents:

Contents; 1. A Changing Profession; 2. Ceiling Effects in Practice; 3. Beginning to Practice; 4. Becoming Partners; 5. Careers in Conflict; 6. Born to Bill?; 7. Pleasures and Perils of Practice; 8. A Contested Profession; Appendix; References; Index;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771920-1

1-280-44185-2

1-4237-6506-0

0-19-535772-8

1-60256-005-6

OCLC:

252547260