Comments on: The NYSBA Sponsors Panel of Men Opining on Women’s “Strengths and Weaknesses” as Lawyers

By: The New York State Bar’s Approach to Teaching Women Communication Skills–Are You Kidding Me?

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:19:08 +0000

[...] for the upcoming meeting next week,Â this is stillÂ a doozy.Â Here is Bridget Crawford from the Feminist Law Prof blog last week: The Committee on Women in the Law is sponsoring a program called”Weathering Tough [...]

By: What Not to Do « Feminist Philosophers

What Not to Do « Feminist Philosophers — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:57:39 +0000

[...] has apparently been quite a bit of criticism. Leave a [...]

By: Work: Ur Doin it Rong - The Pursuit of Harpyness

Work: Ur Doin it Rong - The Pursuit of Harpyness — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:06:10 +0000

[...] what? A little bit of outrage ensued, and the NYSBA responded by adding a few ladylawyers to the panel and issuing a passive [...]

By: Barbara Burke

Barbara Burke — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:34:32 +0000

Thanks for posting the above. We – law students, especially – need to hear these stories, simply to be reminded of the many courageous women who paved the way for us. We stand on their shoulders.

By: ninakraut

ninakraut — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:25:55 +0000

My mother — a 70+ year member of the NY State Bar — was a 1936 graduate of NYU Law. She was among the top 5 in her graduating night school class. A professor recommended her to White & Case. Their response: they had their quota of women and Jews. She went on to a stellar career, first in NYC as Tax Editor at the Research Institute of America, where she worked with Leo Cherne and was, for a time, Bill Casey’s boss, and then in Dutchess County where she started the Dutchess County Legal Aid Society in about 1950. Discrimination of one kind or another dogged her for a good chunk of time, but she pressed on. She was a wonderful mentor, not only to me, but to a hoard of other young women who wanted to be lawyers. She died 3 years ago, at age 98. I can feel her in my bones, turning over in her grave at this outlandish, outrageous panel of the NYState Bar, an organization she truly loved, but one which, I think, she’d be appalled at today.

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uberVU - social comments — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:31:41 +0000

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By: stephaniewickouski

stephaniewickouski — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:48:56 +0000

A boycott isn’t strong enough – unless all the women boycott paying their bar dues, that is!! The NYSBA should pull the program completely. Or better yet – ask them to send around a program description exactly like the last one, only changing “gentlemen” to “ladies”, and “women” to “men”. Or, better still, change “gentlemen” to “whites” and “women” to “blacks”. The reaction to the former would be comical, to the latter, explosive. I am somewhere between comical and explosive.

By: Increasing Diversity by Abandoning Discrimination | Maryland Employment Law Developments

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:50:38 +0000

[...] One blogger, Bridget Crawford, was incensed, and stated as follows: I call for all members of the NYSBA to boycott this panel [...]

By: David S. Cohen

David S. Cohen — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 03:59:34 +0000

Are we in the 1920s?

By: Barbara Burke

Barbara Burke — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:42:59 +0000

Ironically, the panel discussion is being held under the heading of the Edith Spivack Symposium. Spivack herself was a pioneer for women in New York law and achieved many “firsts” as a female attorney.

Perhaps the NYSBA Committee on Women should consider replacing the distinguished gentlemen with a panel discussion on consciousness-raising and its relevance today.