Drawing on more than 100 interviews with women lawyers, judges, law school professors, and law students, Harrington pinpoints the barriers women face when they claim equal professional authority--among them the "men's club" ambience, the focus on billable hours, distorted media images, and sexual harassment.
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Drawing on interviews with more than 100 female lawyers, most of them graduates of Harvard Law School, attorney Harrington (coauthor of Women of Academe ) presents an absorbing mosaic of the issues impeding advancement of her subjects. Women lawyers, she argues plausibly, "are on dangerous ground," connected to both the male establishment and the majority of women, yet anchored by neither. She describes the professional, legal and social strictures that hamper women at corporate law firms. Her account of the tensions at law schools is interesting but brief, as is her survey of media representation of lawyers. More trenchant are her expositions of father/ daughter roles as they affect a woman lawyer, women's style of dress and the stresses of the competitive litigation ethos. She finds some progress on the periphery--women creating more collegial firms, or publicizing the pressures of law school on their personal lives. A few of her topics deserve further analysis, but Harrington provides much food for thought. Author tour.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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The old order of the sexes is breaking apart, but the new is not yet in place. The law is at the center of this reorganization, and women lawyers are powerful agents in it, whether they intend to be or not. Harrington, a lawyer and former professor of political science, interviewed over 100 attorneys, all graduates of Harvard Law School, and elicited information on their personal and professional lives. At issue are two questions: What stands in the way of equal opportunity for women lawyers, and how are women lawyers using the authority they have to advance the equality of women. The book is richly illustrated with examples and anecdotes, and the style is warm, intelligent, and personable. Highly recommended for women's studies and legal collections.
- Elizabeth Fielder Olson, Archer & Greiner Lib., Haddonfield, N.J.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
- Elizabeth Fielder Olson, Archer & Greiner Lib., Haddonfield, N.J.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Great book, but object to basic premise,
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This review is from: Women Lawyers: Rewriting the Rules (Paperback)
This book is a good buy. It discusses exactly what the title suggests: women and the law. However the book goes even further that that: it delves into issues affecting all women such as motherhood and the role of feminism in general. The author states she will analyze women in the law while focusing mainly on Harvard grads working in large law firms--supposedly because they have the greatest ability to affect the greatest change. I, personally, don't believe this assumption to be correct, but it doesn't affect the impact of this book. The author, herself, seems to dismiss her premise later on as she discusses the impacts of women in many other areas of law including governmental offices and politics in general. Buy this book if you are looking for some dissecting of the role of women in a patriarchicial legal system.
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Great Read for Women in the Legal Field,
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Mona Harrington not only asks, but analyzes the right questions about women lawyers. I enjoyed the thourough analysis of the topic. Great read.
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- Talking from 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work by Deborah Tannen in Back Matter
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