Women in the world's legal professions / edited by Ulrike Schultz and Gisela Shaw.

Includes bibliographical references.

Half Title Page; Half Title verso; Title Page; Title verso; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction: Women in the World''s Legal Professions: Overview and Synthesis; Part 1: Women Lawyers in the Common Law World; 1. Gender and the Profession: An American Perspective; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 PROFESSIONAL ROLES; 3 PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITIES; 4 REFERENCES; 2. The Effect of Lawyer Gender on Client Perceptions of Lawyer Behaviour; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE PROJECT; 3 METHODOLOGY; 4 DATA ANALYSIS; 5 CONCLUSION; 6 REFERENCES; 3. Gender in Context: Women in Family Law; 1 INTRODUCTION. 2 THE CONTEXT: FAMILY LAW PRACTICE3 GENDER SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES; 4 OTHER SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND LEGAL FORCES; 5 CONCLUSION; 6 REFERENCES; 4. Barriers to Gender Equality in the Canadian Legal Establishment; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE HISTORICAL EXCLUSION OF WOMEN FROM THE LEGAL PROFESSION; 3 CONTEMPORARY PATTERNS OF INEQUALITY; 4 ONGOING STRUGGLES IN THE CANADIAN LEGAL PROFESSION; 5 CONCLUSION: REFORM AND INNOVATION IN THE CANADIAN LEGAL PROFESSION; 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 7 REFERENCES; 5. Engendering the Legal Profession: the Education Strategy; 1 INTRODUCTION. 2 THE SEMINAR ON GENDER EQUALITY FOR THREE TORONTO LAW FIRMS3 CHALLENGES AND CONSTRAINTS; 4 RETHINKING GENDER EQUALITY EDUCATION AS A STRATEGY FOR CHANGE; 5 REFERENCES; 6. Women in the Legal Profession: The Australian Profile; 1 STRUCTURE OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION IN AUSTRALIA; 2 NUMBER OF WOMEN LAWYERS/MALE LAWYERS; 3 SPECIALISATION OF WOMEN LAWYERS; 4 THE JUDICIARY; 5 CHANGES OVER TIME; 6 LEGAL HIERARCHY; 7 CAREER PATTERNS; 8 INCOME DIFFERENCES; 9 PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT; 10 FIRST WOMEN LAWYERS TO BE ADMITTED/APPOINTED TOTHE JUDICIARY; 11 WOMEN IN LEADING POSITIONS IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS. 12 WOMEN TEACHING LAW13 WOMEN IN LEGAL EDUCATION; 14 CONCLUSIONS; 15 REFERENCES; 7. Women Barristers and Gender Difference; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 WOMEN WITHIN HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY: HONORARY BLOKES; 3 WOMEN AS THE 'OTHER' OF MASCULINITY; 4 EDUCATION AND CONFORMITY; 5 WOMEN'S SUBVERSION OF TRADITION; 6 CONCLUSION; 7 REFERENCES; 8. New Zealand Women Lawyers at the End of the Twentieth Century; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE LEGAL PROFESSION; 3 WOMEN IN THE NEW ZEALAND LEGAL PROFESSION TODAY; 4 INCOME; 5 TIME SPENT IN THE PROFESSION; 6 PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS FOR WOMEN LAWYERS. 7 CONCLUSION8 REFERENCES; 9. The Status of Women Lawyers in the United Kingdom; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE STRUCTURE OF LEGAL EDUCATION AND THE PROFESSION; 3 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: THE ENTRY OF WOMEN INTO LAW; 4 THE FIRST WOMEN LAW STUDENTS AND LEGAL ACADEMICS; 5 WOMEN LAW STUDENTS IN THE 1990S; 6 WOMEN LEGAL ACADEMICS; 7 WOMEN SOLICITORS IN THE 1990S; 8 WOMEN BARRISTERS IN THE 1990S; 9 WOMEN JUDGES; 10 CONCLUSIONS; 11 REFERENCES; 10. Strategies for Reforming the English Solicitor''s Profession: An Analysis of the Business Case for Sex Equality; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 THE STATUS OF WOMEN SOLICITORS

Women lawyers, less than a century ago still almost a contradiction in terms, have come to stay. Who are they? Where are they? What impact have they had on the profession that had for so long been a bastion of male domination? These are key questions asked in this first comprehensive study of women in the world''s legal professions. Answers are based on both quantitative and qualitative analyses, using a variety of conceptual frameworks. 26 contributions by 25 authors present and evaluate the situation of women in the legal profession in both common and civil law countries in the developed wor

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