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In Defense of Law Review Affirmative Action
As you may have seen, the new Scholastica submission service allows law reviews to collect demographic information from authors. A flurry of blog posts has recently cropped up in response; as far as I can tell, they range from negative … Continue reading
Posted in Feminists in Academia, Race and Racism, The Overrepresentation of Men, The Underrepresentation of Women, Where are the Women?
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Most Women Don’t Want Power and Status, She Says
Kay S. Hymowitz of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research writes in the City Journal about “The Plight of the Alpha Female.” Here’s her explanation for the lack of gender parity in the highest ranks of business, government, academia: [W]omen … Continue reading
Posted in Employment Discrimination, Feminism and Culture, The Underrepresentation of Women
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“Not a single woman will lead any of the major House committees in the 113th Congress.”
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According to the Inside the Law School Scam blog, “Clearly, the fact that law schools have produced an enormous oversupply of people with law degrees over the course of the last generation has an extremely significant gender component.”
And the alleged oversupply of law students is totally the fault of us dumb broads. NB: If you decide to read the post, it is probably best to avoid the comments, in case that needs pointing out.
Posted in Academia, Feminists in Academia, The Overrepresentation of Men, The Overrepresentation of Women, The Underrepresentation of Women
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The South Carolina State Senate is going to have a woman member. Only one, but at least one.
See this, excerpt below: Katrina Shealy upended Lexington County politics Tuesday, ousting legendary state Sen. Jake Knotts to become the only woman in the state Senate. Shealy’s win was remarkable in that she beat Knotts in a district that the … Continue reading
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‘Why Are There No Women Writers in Vogue’s Edith Wharton Spread?”
That is the title of this Slate article, which notes: … Several hundred writers and fans had descended upon The Mount, Edith Wharton’s country house in Lenox, Mass., to celebrate the author’s 150th birthday with three days of panels and … Continue reading
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“A planned European Union law to impose sanctions on companies that do not allocate at least 40 percent of the seats on their boards to women has drawn enough opposition from Britain and other countries to risk being blocked before it is officially proposed.”
That is the first sentence of this NYT article.
Corcos on “The Shift to Equal Rights of Succession to Thrones and Titles in the Modern European Constitutional Monarchy”
Christine Corcos (LSU) has posted to SSRN an abstract of her article forthcoming in the Michigan State Law Review. Here it is: On October 27, 2011, the heads of the British Commonwealth member states agreed to remove barriers to the … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Law, Feminism and Politics, Sisters In Other Nations, The Underrepresentation of Women
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What’s the Difference Between a “Gender Quota” and “Gender Balance”?
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, writing for the Harvard Business Review Blog Network, describes it this way: Most companies looking to balance genders in their workforces set a target for the number of women in the organization. Royal Dutch Shell, for example, has committed … Continue reading
Judge Nancy Gertner on “How the Courts Have Repealed the Civil Rights Act”
The Honorable Nancy Gertner (U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, retired) is delivering the luncheon address at the MSU Symposium on “Gender and the Legal Profession.” Here are a few of her highlights from her talk: Judge Gertner explains that the … Continue reading
Posted in Courts and the Judiciary, Employment Discrimination, Feminism and Law, The Underrepresentation of Women
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Clay Shirky’s “A Rant About Women” From Two Years Ago
Read it here. Below is an excerpt: “… Some of the most important opportunities we have are in two-sided markets: education and employment, contracts and loans, grants and prizes. And the institutions that offer these opportunities operate in an environment … Continue reading
Univ. of Michigan to Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Title IX
From the FLP mailbox, this notice of an upcoming conference at the University of Michigan, May 9-11, 2012: The new University of Michigan Sport, Health, and Activity Research and Policy (SHARP) Center for Women and Girls! is hosting a national … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Law, Feminism and Sports, The Underrepresentation of Women, Upcoming Conferences
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Women, Power, and Development
From the Asia Sentinel, this article: Do Women in Power Act Differently From Men? Here an excerpt: Several studies of women’s involvement in environmental protection cited below seem to indicate that they do – marginally. How that plays itself out … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Politics, Feminism and the Workplace, Sisters In Other Nations, The Underrepresentation of Women, Women and Economics
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Tait on “Do Patents Have Gender?” by Dan Burk
Allison Tait, a Gender Equity and Policy Postdoctoral Associate with the Yale Women Faculty Form has posted a review of Dan Burk’s piece, Do Patents Have Gender? Dr. Tait writes: While Burk would like to separate gender realities from gender … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Technology, Feminist Legal Scholarship, The Underrepresentation of Women
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Female Representation on German Corporate Boards
From The Atlantic: Last Monday, the 30 companies of Germany’s blue-chip DAX stock index pledged to increase the proportion of women in management positions. That’s news in itself. What’s most interesting, however, is what didn’thappen that day, and what some German … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Campbell Law Review Edition
How difficult would it have been to find women to include in the symposium? 33 CAMPBELL LAW REVIEW, NO. 3, PP. 501-740, 2011. Symposium. Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and Christianity: Perspectives on the Influence of Christianity on Classical Liberal Legal Thought. … Continue reading
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“Brilliant” vs. “Beautiful” Babies: Guess Which Card is for the Girl?
Via Adriana Gardella (here) who conveys an apt critique in less than 140 characters: “Insidious greeting cards re: boys/girls.” -Bridget Crawford
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“Women Atop Their Fields Dissect the Scientific Life”
Interview by Gina Kolata in the NYT that begins as follows: Elena Aprile, Joy Hirsch, Mary-Claire King and Tal Rabin are members of a rare breed — women scientists at the top of their fields. Dr. Aprile, a professor of … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Boston College Law Review Edition
Boston College Law Review, Issue 52:3 (May 2011) Articles Joseph Blocher, Viewpoint Neutrality and Government Speech, 52 B.C. L. Rev. 695 (2011) [PDF] Robert M. Chesney, Who May Be Held? Military Detention Through the Habeas Lens, 52 B.C. L. Rev. 769 (2011) … Continue reading
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How Many Law School Chairs are Named After Women?
Yesterday’s post with the good news of Kim Krawiec’s appointment as the Kathrine Robinson Everett Professor at Duke Law School made me wonder about the number of law school chairs that are named after women. Hey, readers! We need … Continue reading
Latina Lawyers Before the Supreme Court
Maria Guadalupe Mendoza has published The Thirteen Known Latina Litigants Before the Supreme Court of the United States. Here is the abstract, updated April 3, 2011. From 1935 to 2010, only thirteen known Latinas have argued before the Supreme Court … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Law, Feminist Legal History, If you're a woman, The Underrepresentation of Women
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MIT Releases Third Study On Status Of Women Science and Engineering Faculty
Today, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology releases a report examining the status of women faculty in science and engineering, the third such report since 1999. The upshot: There’s progress, but more needs to be done. The number of women faculty … Continue reading
Black on “Stalled: Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards”
Barbara Black, the Charles Hartsock Professor of Law and Director of the Corporate Law Center at the University of Cincinnati College of Law has posted to SSRN her essay, Stalled: Gender Diversity on Corporate Boards. Here is the abstract: In … Continue reading
Posted in Feminism and Culture, Feminism and Law, Feminist Legal Scholarship, The Underrepresentation of Women
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Ten Years of Student Notes
We have heard a lot lately about women occupying less written space than men. Women write and review significantly fewer books. Women author significantly fewer articles in most major magazines. Even in the supposed cyber-utopia of Wikipedia, women author only … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Law Schools, The Underrepresentation of Women
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Military Leadership Diversity Commission Recommends Eliminating “Combat Exclusion Policies” That Discriminate Against Women!
See Recommendation 9 at page 19 of the Executive Summary. The full report is available here. –Ann Bartow
Posted in Employment Discrimination, Feminism and the Workplace, The Overrepresentation of Men, The Underrepresentation of Women
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Does a Faculty Member’s Gender Matter? When Overt Discrimination Isn’t the Problem (Anymore)
There’s a new study out of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst that says it does, at least in science and engineeering. Here’s how an article over at Slate breaks it down: [Jane Stout, Nilanjana Dasgupta, Matthew Hunsinger, and Melissa … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Not Too Often Among Magazine Authors, Either
VIDA: Women in Literary Arts has published The Count 2010, its annual tally of authors whose work appeared (or was reviewed) in magazines like the Atlantic, Granta, Harpers, London Review of Books, the New Yorker, the NY Times Book Review, the … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Presidents Day Edition
Ruthann Robson asks this question over at the Constitutional Law Prof Blog: “Where Are the Women?” is a query that is not limited to the category of United States Presidents. Consider Lynn E. Ford’s work on women and politics, especially their complete absence in South … Continue reading
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Will UN Secretary-General post remain a male preserve?
Tradition has it that the post of Secretary-General should rotate so that each geographical region gets its “turn.” Women have never had a “turn”. . . Equality Now Women’s Action, November 2005 In her post today on IntLawGrrls, Madame la … Continue reading
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Oh Man! Where are the Women: Georgetown Edition
The Georgetown Law Journal shows that it can get worse. Instead of publishing few female faculty authors (see here), how about none? Here’s the line-up for volume 99, issue 2. Four articles, 5 authors, all men. How International Financial Law … Continue reading
Where Are the Women? Wikipedia Edition
This blog (i.e., Bridget and Ann) has (have) done a great job of calling attention to the underrepresentation of women in law reviews and symposia (for example, here and here). An article in the New York Times has now called … Continue reading
Faculty Mentoring and Student Writing
As I discussed in my last post, I’m currently engaged in a long-term project examining student note publication—including the role of gender in that process—that builds on my previous article on that topic. One piece of the puzzle is how … Continue reading
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On the Issues Magazine Article “Judging Our Future” on Female Judges
In this month’s On the Issues magazine there is a quick article (here) about the presence/absence of women judges in the United States. “Judging our Future: Supreme Women Move Up” gives some of the stats: Since Elena Kagan took her … Continue reading
Are the Media’s Representations of Supreme Court Nominees Gendered?
Renee Newman Knake and Hannah Brenner, both of Michigan State University College of Law, have published Rethinking Gender Equality in the Legal Profession: What the Media’s Depiction of Supreme Court Nominees Reveals About the Pipeline to Power as an MSU Legal … Continue reading
Nothing Says ‘Thanksgiving’ Like ’99 männliche Luftballons’
Healthy Girls Healthy Women reports here on its on-line petition requesting that Macy’s add an equal number of female-character balloons to its annual Thanksgiving Day Parade. In the 84-year history of the parade, only 8% of all the balloons were of … Continue reading
“Number of Women Lawyers Hits 5-Year Low at NLJ 250 Firms”
From this site: The percentage of women partners and associates working at NLJ 250 law firms this year fell to its lowest point since 2006. Women associates and partners accounted for 29.2 percent of all attorneys at NLJ 250 firms. … Continue reading
Where are the Women? GW Edition July 2010
The July 2010 issue of the George Washington Law Review is here. It contains eight pieces (including the Foreward); zero are written by women. H/T Ruthann Robson -Bridget Crawford
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New Study Finds Women and Girls Underrepresented and Oversexualized in Media
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media has recently issued a report of the results of studies conducted about gender in media. The results can be viewed here (PDF). Among them: Study 1: G-rated movies from 1990-Jan. 2005: Fewer … Continue reading
Half of the trained artists in the U.S. are women, yet they make up just 2% of the artists with works in the National Gallery in DC; at the contemporary art-focused Hirshhorn Museum, women make up only 5% of featured artists.
Pamela T. Boll examines this disparity and its causes in her documentary Who Does She Think She Is? Via. –Ann Bartow
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2010 Status Update – Women and Legal Education
According to blogs in the legal academy, women did not fare well this year in the law school lateral hire market, with the majority of lateral moves being made by men. Further, Supreme Court clerkships are weighty credentials among academics … Continue reading
An all women Supreme Court?
It’s not impossible. The Texas Supreme Court is a testament to the possibility. It happened eighty-five years ago, if only for a single case. In 1925, the Texas Governor appointed three women to fill all the positions … Continue reading
When the NYT wants to spark debate about cussing, it asks “Why Do Educated People Use Bad Words?” and then queries one woman and five men.
Which makes the NYT ripe for cussing out. Impressive class bias, in addition to the sexism. Lovely quote from Timothy Jay: “This doesn’t mean the average person is swearing more. But we have recorded more women swearing in public than … Continue reading
Posted in Sexism in the Media, Sociolinguistics, The Overrepresentation of Men, The Underrepresentation of Women
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Where Are The Women? The Catholic University of America and its Law School’s Center for Law, Philosophy and Culture is hosting a womenless symposium on”The Nature of Judicial Duty: A Reflection on Philip Hamburger’s Law and Judicial Duty”on April 8-9, 2010.
The Symposium’s home page is here. The listed speakers include: Philip Hamburger (keynote), Richard A. Epstein, Emilio M. Garza, R.H. Helmholz, H. Jefferson Powell, Lloyd L. Weinreb and Michael P. Zuckert. –Ann Bartow
Where are the Women? SUPREME COURT ECONOMIC REVIEW ADDITION (NB: that is a pun on “edition” for the humor impaired, given the focus on sum numbers.) (Yes, “sum” is another bad pun! Try to keep up!)
17 SUPREME COURT ECONOMIC REVIEW, PP. 1-337, 2009. Symposium on Post-Kelo Reform. 17 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 1-278 (2009). Somin, Ilya. Introduction to the symposium. 17 Sup. Ct. Econ. Rev. 1-5 (2009). Dana, David A. Exclusionary eminent domain. 17 Sup. … Continue reading
“Why are women being left out of climate decision-making?”
From this article: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced an important new climate change financing group last week, but out of the 19 people named, no women were included. This is unfortunate because women will bear the brunt of the effects … Continue reading
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Marines to Women Soldiers: Clean Up On Aisle Seven!
When their gender is seen as an advantage rather than a disability, suddenly it is permissible for women soldiers to assume combat roles: … Women make up only 6 percent of the Marine Corps, which cultivates an image as the … Continue reading
Attacking Bias in Law Reviews: Jonathan Gingerich on Blind Review
With all the attention here on the paucity of female authors in the top law reviews, here’s an interesting paper from Jonathan Gingerich calling for blind review as the norm at law reviews: Abstract: A number of studies suggest that … Continue reading
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Where are the Women? Lateral Hires Edition, Cripes!
Over at The Faculty Lounge Dan Filler lists lateral moves he is aware of (with supplementation from the appended comments and other sources) as follows: Arizona State Daniel Bodansky from Georgia Boston College Brian Galle from Florida State Charleston Todd … Continue reading
What is the effect of portraying college life as a catfight among straight women? In whose interest is it to describe the relationship among straight college women as essentially competitive and perhaps to blame for bad behavior on the part of college men?
Those are two questions Historiann asks in this excellent post about yesterday’s NYT article, The New Math on Campus. The point of article in my view is to help sell the idea of making achieving gender balance at colleges a … Continue reading
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Where are the women? There isn’t a single women law prof, jurist or practitioner among the participants in the Wake Forest Law Review’s 2009 Torts Symposium
44 WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW, NO. 4, WINTER, 2009. Third Restatement of Torts: Issue One. 44 Wake Forest L. Rev. 877-1107 (2009). Cardi, W. Jonathan. A pluralistic analysis of the therapist/physician duty to warn third parties. 44 Wake Forest L. … Continue reading