What's a Woman to Do? Negotiating Work in the Adversarial Legal System

• In Event: Oppressive Criminal Justice Practices

Abstract

The paper compares the results of in-depth interviews with 40 women who attended law school in the last quarter of the twentieth century with interviews of women entering the law in the past decade. Attention is paid to their relationship to the nature and attitude of law, and the resulting decisions that affect their career choices.

Author

• Susan T. Krumholz, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth