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Nancy Staudt, April Yanyuan Wu, Chao Wang Is Gender-based Policymaking Relevant in the 21st Century? 13 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law 59 (2012) On virtually every dimension, women's life choices and experiences have changed, and most agree, these changes are for the better. Compared to the average woman thirty years ago, women today have higher levels of education, more stable career trajectories, better salaries, longer life expectancies . the list continues. Because these economic and...; Search Snippet: ...The Intersection of Tax Law, Gender and Sexuality Article Is Gender-based Policymaking Relevant in the 21st Century? Nancy Staudt April... 2012    
Anne Bloom , Julie Davies Martha Chamallas and Jennifer B. Wriggins, the Measure of Injury: Race, Gender, and Tort Law. New York: New York University Press, 2010, Pp. 228, $40.00 61 Journal of Legal Education 495 (February, 2012) The subject of torts is a perennial favorite for first-year law students. The cases are fun to read and practically cry out for discussion of the broader social and political considerations at stake. But despite the easy connection between torts and public policy, the field is relatively under-analyzed from the perspective of gender and race. The...; Search Snippet: ...Chamallas and Jennifer B. Wriggins, the Measure of Injury: Race, Gender, and Tort Law. New York: New York University Press, 2010... 2012    
Dick M. Carpenter II, University Of Colorado, Institute For Justice Mom Likes You Best: Do Homeschool Parents Discriminate Against Their Daughters? 7 University of St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy 24 (Fall 2012) This study tests assertions by critics of homeschooling that parents who homeschool discriminate against their daughters and give preference to their sons in their educational pursuits. Specifically, the study asks three questions: (1) Is there a significant difference between male and female homeschooled students in educational...; Search Snippet: ...Mom Likes You Best: Do Homeschool Parents Discriminate Against Their Daughters? Dick M. Carpenter Ii University of Colorado Institute for Justice... 2012    
Alicia Brokars Kelly Navigating Gender in Modern Intimate Partnership Law 14 Journal of Law and Family Studies Stud. 1 (2012) With women edging up to become half the workforce, claims of women's economic empowerment now abound. But the reality is that gender equality has not been mainstreamed. The truly eye-opening new data is how marginalized and partial many women's attachment to the labor force continues to be. Simultaneously, another misleading narrative also...; Search Snippet: ...Studies Journal of Law and Family Studies 2012 Article Navigating Gender in Modern Intimate Partnership Law Alicia Brokars Kelly [Fna1] Copyright... 2012    
Hannah Brenner , Renee Newman Knake Rethinking Gender Equality in the Legal Profession's Pipeline to Power: a Study on Media Coverage of Supreme Court Nominees (Phase I, the Introduction Week) 84 Temple Law Review 325 (Winter 2012) Three women now sit on the Supreme Court of the United States, and a fourth recently retired, suggesting the attainment of formal gender equality. Despite this appearance of progress, women remain significantly underrepresented in major leadership roles within the legal profession, where they face extensive gender bias and stereotyping. This gender...; Search Snippet: ...Temple Law Review Temple Law Review Winter 2012 Articles Rethinking Gender Equality in the Legal Profession's Pipeline to Power: a Study... 2012    
Hannah Alsgaard Rural Inheritance: Gender Disparities in Farm Transmission 88 North Dakota Law Review 347 (2012) Farmers are farmers' sons. Notable in our modern day, heralded by many as a gender-neutral society, it is farmers' sons, not farmers' daughters, who become farmers and take over ownership and management of the family farm. It has long been true that agricultural knowledge and land have passed through generations of men. In contrast, daughters, even...; Search Snippet: ...Law Review North Dakota Law Review 2012 Article Rural Inheritance: Gender Disparities in Farm Transmission Hannah Alsgaard [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2012... 2012    
Iván Espinoza-Madrigal Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Diversity in the Workplace 58 No. 4 Practical Lawyer 39 (8/1/2012) Ms. Vinson's experience as a woman and as an African-American placed her in a unique position with respect to her relationship with her manager and the sexual harassment she experienced. The lack of job opportunities she likely encountered as an African-American woman in 1974 may have contributed to her hesitation to report Mr. Taylor and,...; Search Snippet: ...Wl 3094950 Practical Lawyer Practical Lawyer August 2012 Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Diversity in the Workplace Lgbt Equality in The... 2012   African/Black American
Bridgette Baldwin Shadow Works and Shadow Markets: How Privatization of Welfare Services Produces an Alternative Market 34 Western New England Law Review 445 (2012) The rhetoric of Ivan Illich has been discussed, analyzed, and critiqued in countless scholarly articles. There have been conferences centered on his work, classes taught on his writings, and forums populated with his criticisms even after his death in 2002. In his work, Illich offered a critique on the modernization of our social institutions and...; Search Snippet: ...A System of Welfare Privatization Has Affected the Lives of African- American Women by Shifting Economic Resources from the State to Market Interest... 2012   African/Black American
Veronica Colon-Padilla The "Miss America" Ideal: an Analysis of the Legality and Enforceability of Bodily Contract Clauses Within Modern Pageantry and the Gender and Cultural Implications of Using Governmentally Unregulated Weight Requirements in the Media 34 Women's Rights Law Reporter 79 (Fall 2012) And so in these economic times, we need to be looking forward to what America needs, and I think Miss America needs to represent all. -Oskar Garcia The first recorded bathing beauty contest took place at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware in 1880, a mere seventeen years after President Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation and at the turn of...; Search Snippet: ...Enforceability of Bodily Contract Clauses Within Modern Pageantry and the Gender and Cultural Implications of Using Governmentally Unregulated Weight Requirements In... 2012    
Candace Hamilton Hester, Chris Meyer, Steven Raphael The Evolution of Gender Employment Rate Differentials Within Racial Groups in the United States 41 Journal of Legal Studies 385 (June, 2012) This paper analyzes changes in gender employment rate (GER) differentials for whites and blacks in the United States from 1950 to 2008. We document the evolution of the GER gap, which narrows considerably within both racial groups and turns slightly negative for blacks. We document the changing employment levels that drive these patterns as well as...; Search Snippet: ...Conference: the Law and Economics of Race the Evolution of Gender Employment Rate Differentials Within Racial Groups in the United States... 2012   African/Black American
Jessica Dixon Weaver The First Father: Perspectives on the President's Fatherhood Initiative 50 Family Court Review 297 (April, 2012) This article presents an analysis of the thirteen-year-old President's Fatherhood Initiative utilized by the executive branch to tackle the problem of absent fathers in America. It argues that this social policy attempts to recapture the economic incentives central to the controversial Moynihan Report of 1965, emphasizing patriarchal and classist...; Search Snippet: ...Palatable than the Negative Pathology Moynihan Associated with Single-headed Female Households, and it Has Been Neutrally Packaged to Apply To... 2012    
Keith J. Bybee The Limits of Debate or What We Talk about When We Talk about Gender Imbalance on the Bench 2012 Michigan State Law Review 1481 (2012) Introduction. 1481 I. The Significance of Structure. 1483 II. Impartial Arbiters and Political Actors. 1484 III. The Limits of the Debate. 1490 IV. A Way Forward. 1496 What do we talk about when we talk about gender imbalance on the bench? The first thing we do is count. Scholars, pundits, the press, and organizations all keep track of the number...; Search Snippet: ...Debate or What We Talk about When We Talk about Gender Imbalance on the Bench Keith J. Bybee [Fna1] Copyright © 2012... 2012    
Emily Stabile The Measure of Injury: Race, Gender, and Tort Law by Martha Chamallas and Jennifer B. Wriggins. New York and London: New York University Press, 2010.228 Pp. $40.00 Hardcover. 27 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 150 (Winter 2012) It was originally believed that the reasonable man standard was gender neutral . . . . But man is not generic except to other men . . . . Because reasonable man was intended to be a universal term, the change to reasonable person was thought to continue the same universal standard without utilizing the gendered term man. The language of...; Search Snippet: ...Justice Winter 2012 Book Review the Measure of Injury: Race, Gender, and Tort Law by Martha Chamallas and Jennifer B. Wriggins... 2012    
Brook Kelly The Modern Hiv/aids Epidemic and Human Rights in the United States: a Lens into Lingering Gender, Race, and Health Disparities and Cutting Edge Approaches to Justice. 41 University of Baltimore Law Review 355 (Winter 2012) Disparities experienced by women of color living with HIV are a lens through which the failures of current HIV policies and anti-discrimination laws to address racial, gender, disability, and economic disparities can be viewed. Research has confirmed what is already known by people living with HIV: The HIV epidemic is driven by the same social and...; Search Snippet: ...Human Rights in the United States: a Lens into Lingering Gender, Race, and Health Disparities and Cutting Edge Approaches to Justice... 2012    
Dean Spade The Only Way to End Racialized Gender Violence in Prisons Is to End Prisons: a Response to Russell Robinson's "Masculinity as Prison" 3 California Law Review Circuit 182 (December, 2012) In Masculinity As Prison: Sexual Identity, Race, and Incarceration, Professor Russell Robinson explores the creation of the K6G unit of the Los Angeles County Jail. Robinson describes how this unit, designed to protect prisoners who may be targets because of their non-normative gender and/or sexual orientation, operates as a site for the...; Search Snippet: ...Review Circuit December, 2012 the Only Way to End Racialized Gender Violence in Prisons Is to End Prisons: a Response To... 2012    
Julie C. Suk Work-family Conflict and the Pipeline to Power: Lessons from European Gender Quotas 2012 Michigan State Law Review 1797 (2012) I. Leaky Pipeline: Gender Disparities at the Top of the Legal Profession. 1797 II. Gender Quotas: An Emerging European Trend. 1802 III. Completing the Revolution in Social Reproduction. 1805 IV. Critical Insights for the United States. 1811 Conclusion. 1814 Despite the fact that women have entered law school in roughly equal numbers to men for two...; Search Snippet: ...Family Conflict and the Pipeline to Power: Lessons from European Gender Quotas Julie C. Suk [Fna1] Copyright © 2012 Michigan State University... 2012    
Sarah Mazzochi A New Twist on an Old Idea: How Year-round Schooling and Revamped Out-of-school Care Can Improve the Lives of Women in Washington, D.c. 19 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 109 (Fall 2011) Much has been said about year-round schooling, but its effect on low-income working women has been relatively overlooked by feminists and educational activists alike. This Comment seeks to change that by proposing that Washington, D.C. should implement year-round schooling and improve its afterschool care program to help women, particularly...; Search Snippet: ...Revamped Out-of-school Care Can Improve the Lives of Women in Washington, D.c. Sarah Mazzochi [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2011 Virginia... 2011 Yes  
Gail Heriot , Alison Somin Affirmative Action for Men? Strange Silences and Strange Bedfellows in the Public Debate over Discrimination Against Women in College Admissions 12 Engage: The Journal of the Federalist Society Practice Groups 14 (11/1/2011) While some news reports indicate that discrimination against women on the basis of sex in college admissions is increasingly common, there has been relatively little public discussion about it--especially compared to the much more heated public debate concerning race-based affirmative action. Not surprisingly, therefore, there have been few...; Search Snippet: ...And Strange Bedfellows in the Public Debate over Discrimination Against Women in College Admissions Gail Heriot [Fna1] Alison Somin [Fna1] Copyright... 2011 Yes  
Rebecca D. Gill, Sylvia R. Lazos, Mallory M. Waters Are Judicial Performance Evaluations Fair to Women and Minorities? A Cautionary Tale from Clark County, Nevada 45 Law and Society Review 731 (September, 2011) Because voters rely on judicial performance evaluations when casting their ballots, policymakers should work diligently to compile valid, reliable, and unbiased information about our sitting judges. Although some claim that judicial performance evaluations are fair, the systematic research needed to establish such a proposition has not been done....; Search Snippet: ...Review September, 2011 Article Are Judicial Performance Evaluations Fair to Women and Minorities? A Cautionary Tale from Clark County, Nevada Rebecca... 2011 Yes  
Adrienne D. Davis Bad Girls of Art and Law: Abjection, Power, and Sexuality Exceptionalism in (Kara Walker's) Art and (Janet Halley's) Law 23 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism Feminism 1 (2011) This Article draws some connections between legal theorist Janet Halley and contemporary artist Kara Walker. It compares their recent oeuvre to show how both reject understandings of the interplay of sex, power, and subordination proffered by conventional justice projects--specifically civil rights' and feminism's articulations of...; Search Snippet: ...And Feminism Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 2011 Article Bad Girls of Art and Law: Abjection, Power, and Sexuality Exceptionalism In... 2011 Yes  
D. Wendy Greene Black Women Can't Have Blonde Hair . . . in the Workplace 14 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 405 (Spring 2011) Paulette Caldwell's pioneering hair piece situated Black women's hairstyle choices and the constraints placed upon them in making these choices within much needed historical and contemporary social context. Professor Caldwell presented a compelling appraisal of the infamous braids case, Rogers v. American Airlines, and in doing so, offered a...; Search Snippet: ...Intersection in Employment, Economics, and the Law Symposium Article Black Women Can't Have Blonde Hair . . . in the Workplace D. Wendy Greene... 2011 Yes African/Black American
Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, Melissa Roca Black Women Judges: Three Decade Journey to Maryland Appellate Courts 44-AUG Maryland Bar Journal 20 (July/August, 2011) IN COMMEMORATION OF THE National Bar Association's annual convention which will be held in Baltimore this summer, Judge Marcella A. Holland, the first African-American woman Circuit Administrative Judge in the State of Maryland (Circuit Court for Baltimroe City, 8th Judicial Circuit,) asked me to write an article focusing on minorities in the...; Search Snippet: ...July/august, 2011 Feature Diversity in the Legal Profession Black Women Judges: Three Decade Journey to Maryland Appellate Courts the Honorable... 2011 Yes African/Black American
Lynne Marie Kohm , Diane J. Chandler , Doris Gomez Christianity, Feminism, and the Paradox of Female Happiness 17 Trinity Law Review 191 (Fall, 2011) I. Introduction. 191 II. A Historical Look at the Successes and Failures of Religious Christianity Regarding Gender Equality. 194 A. Successes. 195 B. Failures. 205 III. A Historical Look at the Successes and Failures of Feminist Philosophy in Gender Equality. 210 A. Successes. 212 B. Failures. 217 IV. Successes and Failures in Contemporary Women's...; Search Snippet: ...Review Fall, 2011 Article Christianity, Feminism, and the Paradox of Female Happiness Lynne Marie Kohm [Fna1] Diane J. Chandler [Fnaa1] Doris... 2011 Yes  
Marcia L. McCormick Consensus, Dissensus, and Enforcement: Legal Protection of Working Women from the Time of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire to Today 14 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 645 (2011) Introduction. 646 I. The Progressive Era Social Movements and Women's Work. 647 A. Women, Work, and Labor Laws in the Progressive Era. 649 B. Factory Conditions, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, and Reactions. 654 II. The Shift to Individual Rights and Anti-Discrimination Laws. 659 III. Dissensus and the Failure of Enforcement. 674 Conclusion....; Search Snippet: ...2011 Article Consensus, Dissensus, and Enforcement: Legal Protection of Working Women from the Time of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire To... 2011 Yes  
Roy G. Spece, Jr. Constitutional Attacks Against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's "Mandating" That Certain Individuals and Employers Purchase Insurance While Restricting Purchase by Undocumented Immigrants and Women Seeking Abortion Coverage 38 Northern Kentucky Law Review 489 (2011) I. Introduction: Four Contexts for Constitutional Analysis 490 II. Certain Historical Events, Situations and Processes that Preceded the PPACA 499 III. A Brief Description of Parts of the PPACA 508 A. Assumptions for Purposes of Analysis 508 B. A Global Overview 508 C. Additional Info about the PPACA Provisions Most Relevant Here 513 1. Exchanges...; Search Snippet: ...Employers Purchase Insurance While Restricting Purchase by Undocumented Immigrants and Women Seeking Abortion Coverage Roy G. Spece, Jr. [Fna1] Copyright ©... 2011 Yes  
Lisa Lindquist Dorr, University of Alabama Crystal N. Feimster, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching, Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2009. Pp. 314. $35.00 (Isbn 978-0-674-03562-1) 29 Law and History Review 912 (August, 2011) To students of southern history, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Rebecca Latimer Felton are familiar figures. Both women lent their voices to public debates about the racial implications of sexual violence. Crystal Feimster, in Southern Horrors, places these two women; their ideological understandings of race, sex, and politics; and the culture of...; Search Snippet: ...Review August, 2011 Book Review Crystal N. Feimster, Southern Horrors: Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching, Cambridge, Ma: Harvard... 2011 Yes  
Dan Subotnik Do Law Schools Mistreat Women Faculty? Or, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 44 Akron Law Review 867 (2011) I. Introduction. 868 II. Initial Hiring Practices. 872 A. Initial Appointments. 872 B. Non-Prestigious Fields. 873 C. Legal Writing. 876 D. Emphasis on Scholarship. 881 III. Retention. 882 A. Inferior Teaching Evaluations. 882 B. Promotion and Tenure. 883 C. Service Work. 885 IV. Deanships. 886 V. Conclusion. 890; Search Snippet: ...Review Akron Law Review Articles 2011 Do Law Schools Mistreat Women Faculty? Or, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Dan Subotnik [Fna1... 2011 Yes  
Bernard Duhaime, Josée-Anne Riverin Double Discrimination and Equality Rights of Indigenous Women in Quebec 65 University of Miami Law Review 903 (Spring 2011) I. Introduction. 903 II. Indigenous Women Face Double Discrimination. 905 III. Why Address Equality Rights of Indigenous Women from an Intersectional Approach?. 909 IV. Overview of Three Situations of Double Discrimination Faced by Indigenous Women in Quebec. 912 A. The Transmission of Indigenous Women's Indian Status Under the Federal Indian Act....; Search Snippet: ...The Americas Essays Double Discrimination and Equality Rights of Indigenous Women in Quebec Bernard Duhaime Josée-anne Riverin [Fna1] Copyright ©... 2011 Yes American Indian/Alaskan Native
Erin Liotta Double Victims: Ending the Incarceration of California's Battered Women 26 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 253 (Summer 2011) This Comment focuses on the plight of incarcerated survivors of domestic violence--specifically, women who are eligible for habeas corpus relief under California Penal Code section 1473.5. Taking the position that these women should be released from prison, the author examines the range of relief potentially available before focusing on the...; Search Snippet: ...2011 Commentary Double Victims: Ending the Incarceration of California's Battered Women Erin Liotta [Fnd1] Copyright (C) 2011 Regents of the University... 2011 Yes  
Ryan Elias Newby Evil Women and Innocent Victims: the Effect of Gender on California Sentences for Domestic Homicide 22 Hastings Women's Law Journal 113 (Winter 2011) Karen Provencio is serving fifty years to life in prison for killing her husband in their Temecula home in December of 1998. She insisted his death was an accident, caused by a gun going off in her hand when she removed it from their bed for safekeeping. She and her husband fought the night he died, and their children reported he was crying...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Hastings Women's Law Journal Winter 2011 Note Evil Women and Innocent Victims: the Effect of Gender on California Sentences for Domestic Homicide Ryan Elias Newby [Fna1... 2011 Yes  
Elaine Bucklo From Women's Rights Advocate to Supreme Court Justice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Speaks 37 No. 2 Litigation 8 (Winter, 2011) Last August, I was privileged to interview U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her chambers. In large part, the interview concerned the important decisions of the Supreme Court from 1971 through 1993 that fundamentally altered the rights of women in the United States. Until November 1971, states could enact with impunity almost any...; Search Snippet: ...1618133 Litigation Litigation Winter, 2011 Rule to Live by from Women's Rights Advocate to Supreme Court Justice: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Speaks... 2011 Yes  
  Girls and the Juvenile Court: an Historical Examination of the Treatment of Girls 47 Criminal Law Bulletin 5 (2011) Assistant Professor, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Southern Oregon University. Professor Burke's primary interests are juvenile delinquency, gender and justice, delinquency prevention, juvenile justice.; Search Snippet: ...Bulletin Volume 47, Issue 1 Winter 2011 Criminal Law Bulletin Girls and the Juvenile Court: an Historical Examination of the Treatment of Girls Alison S. Burke[ * Introduction in Recent Years, The... 2011 Yes  
Nicole Moody Health Reform and the Plight of the Uninsured Pregnant Woman 90 Oregon Law Review 643 (2011) Introduction. 644 I. Pre-Health-Reform State of Affairs for the Underinsured and the Uninsured. 657 A. Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance. 658 B. Individually Purchased Insurance. 661 C. Medicaid. 663 1. California's Medicaid Program: Medi-Cal. 665 2. Oregon's Medicaid Program: Oregon Health Plan (OHP). 668 3. Conclusions About Medicaid as a...; Search Snippet: ...Comment Health Reform and the Plight of the Uninsured Pregnant Woman [Fn1] Nicole Moody [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2011 University of Oregon... 2011 Yes  
James Nelson Lewis Hidden in Dodd-frank: a Look at the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion 7 Modern American 2 (Fall, 2011) An Act [t]o promote the financial stability of the United States by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system, to end too big to fail, to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts, to protect consumers from abusive financial services practices, and for other purposes. The Office of Minority and Women Inclusion,...; Search Snippet: ...Dodd-frank: a Look at the Office of Minority and Women Inclusion James Nelson Lewis [Fn1] Copyright © 2011 by the Modern... 2011 Yes  
Ronald Chester History's Orphan: Arthur Maclean and the Legal Education of Women 51 American Journal of Legal History 305 (April, 2011) [T]here is properly no history; only biography. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series Essay I: History (1841). It is never too late to honor the dead. Attributed to Toni Morrison, N.Y. Times, July 28, 2008. In the spring of 1941, Arthur Winfield MacLean, sixty-one year old Dean and founder of Boston's Portia Law School for women on Beacon...; Search Snippet: ...2011 History's Orphan: Arthur Maclean and the Legal Education of Women Ronald Chester [Fn1] Copyright © 2011 by Temple University James E... 2011 Yes  
Lynne A. Battaglia, Evelyn C. Lombardo Investing in the Future of Maryland Women 44-AUG Maryland Bar Journal 12 (July/August, 2011) ATTORNEYS WHO ARE FEMALE have been identified by and with their gender since their admission to the Maryland Bar in 1902. For instance, in 1907, when Baltimore Law School closed its doors to women, it was rumored in the media that male law students had petitioned the faculty for the women's exclusion, because the female students had outshone their...; Search Snippet: ...In the Legal Profession Investing in the Future of Maryland Women the Honorable Lynne A. Battaglia, Evelyn C. Lombardo [Fna1] Copyright... 2011 Yes  
Allison M. Blackman Manufactured Home Displacement and its Disparate Impact on Low-income Females: a Violation of the Fair Housing Act in Boise, Idaho? 4 the crit: a Critical Studies Journal 67 (Winter, 2011) C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction 68 II. The History Of Manufactured Home Displacement In Boise, Idaho 73 III. Potential Legal Frameworks 77 A. Non-Existence Of Constitutional Remedies 77 B. Other Federal Frameworks 79 1. The Fair Housing Act 79 2. Disparate Impact Theory 82 C. Problematic Idaho Law 86 IV. The Violations 87 A. HUD's Own...; Search Snippet: ...Manufactured Home Displacement and its Disparate Impact on Low-income Females: a Violation of the Fair Housing Act in Boise, Idaho... 2011 Yes  
Joan C. Williams , Veta Richardson New Millennium, Same Glass Ceiling? The Impact of Law Firm Compensation Systems on Women 62 Hastings Law Journal 597 (February, 2011) This Article reports on a survey of 694 law firm partners, virtually all women, who filled out an online survey about the impact of law firm compensation systems on women. The results were analyzed through the lens of thirty-five years of experimental social psychology studies of gender bias. Survey results showed considerable dissatisfaction among...; Search Snippet: ...Glass Ceiling? The Impact of Law Firm Compensation Systems on Women [Fnd1] Joan C. Williams [Fna1] Veta Richardson [Fnaa1] Copyright ©... 2011 Yes  
Kirsten Gallacher Protecting Women from Deception: the Constitutionality of Disclosure Requirements in Pregnancy Centers 33 Women's Rights Law Reporter 113 (Fall 2011) Warna Lewis thought she was pregnant and wanted an abortion. She looked in the phone book under Abortion Information and Services and found a facility that offered Pregnancy-Abortion Info, including free pregnancy tests. She called the facility and spoke with a staff member. Warna explained that she thought she might be pregnant and in her...; Search Snippet: ...Law Reporter Women's Rights Law Reporter Fall 2011 Note Protecting Women from Deception: the Constitutionality of Disclosure Requirements in Pregnancy Centers... 2011 Yes  
Women Chief Justices Second Annual Golden Gate University School of Law Chief Justice Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture Women Chief Justices 41 Golden Gate University Law Review 153 (Winter 2011) Welcome Drucilla Stender Ramey Dean, Golden Gate University School of Law Dan Angel President, Golden Gate University Chief Justice Ronald M. George Supreme Court of California Lecture Introduction Justice Morgan Christen Alaska Supreme Court Lecture Justice Dana Fabe Former chief justice, Alaska Supreme Court President, National Association of...; Search Snippet: ...School of Law Chief Justice Ronald M. George Distinguished Lecture Women Chief Justices Women Chief Justices Copyright (C) 2011 Golden Gate... 2011 Yes American Indian/Alaskan Native
Rayvon Fouché , Sharra Vostral Selling Women: Lillian Gilbreth, Gender Translation, and Intellectual Property 19 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 825 (2011) I. Introduction. 825 II. Women's Bodies, Vernacular Knowledge, and Intellectual Property. 831 III. The Gilbreth Report: Extracting, Commodifying, and Packaging. 835 IV. Gender Translation. 844; Search Snippet: ...The Connections Washington, Dc; April 16, 2010 Symposium Article Selling Women: Lillian Gilbreth, Gender Translation, and Intellectual Property Rayvon Fouché [Fna1] Sharra Vostral [Fnd1... 2011 Yes  
Leslie C. Griffin Smith and Women's Equality 32 Cardozo Law Review 1831 (May, 2011) S.D. filed for a restraining order against her husband in New Jersey because he had beaten her and forced her to have sexual intercourse against her will due to his dissatisfaction with her inability to cook acceptable meals for his houseguests. The couple was wed in an arranged marriage in Morocco in July 2008, when the bride was seventeen years...; Search Snippet: ...Exercise of Religion and How it Changed History Smith and Women's Equality Leslie C. Griffin [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2011 Yeshiva University... 2011 Yes  
Theresa M. Beiner Some Thoughts on the State of Women Lawyers and Why Title Vii Has Not Worked for Them 44 Indiana Law Review 685 (2011) I graduated from law school in 1989-over twenty years ago. At the time I graduated, my law school class was close to 50% female, which was a fairly common phenomenon at the time across the country. Today, first-year law school classes also generally consist of roughly half female and half male students. When I graduated, I thought that with such...; Search Snippet: ...Mary Harter Mitchell Articles Some Thoughts on the State of Women Lawyers and Why Title Vii Has Not Worked for Them... 2011 Yes  
Terri Nilliasca Some Women's Work: Domestic Work, Class, Race, Heteropatriarchy, and the Limits of Legal Reform 16 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 377 (Spring 2011) This Note employs Critical Race, feminist, Marxist, and queer theory to analyze the underlying reasons for the exclusion of domestic workers from legal and regulatory systems. The Note begins with a discussion of the role of legal and regulatory systems in upholding and replicating White supremacy within the employer and domestic worker...; Search Snippet: ...Michigan Journal of Race and Law Spring 2011 Notes Some Women's Work: Domestic Work, Class, Race, Heteropatriarchy, and the Limits Of... 2011 Yes  
Suzianne D. Painter-Thorne Tangled up in Knots: How Continued Federal Jurisdiction over Sexual Predators on Indian Reservations Hobbles Effective Law Enforcement to the Detriment of Indian Women 41 New Mexico Law Review 239 (Spring 2011) In February 2003, twenty-year-old Leslie Ironroad lapsed into a coma and died after being held captive in a bathroom, then beaten and repeatedly raped by a group of men on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. Desperate to stop the assault, Ironroad had taken diabetes pills she found in the bathroom's medicine cabinet, hoping that...; Search Snippet: ...Reservations Hobbles Effective Law Enforcement to the Detriment of Indian Women Suzianne D. Painter-thorne [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2011 New Mexico... 2011 Yes American Indian/Alaskan Native
Erin E. Buzuvis The Feminist Case for the Ncaa's Recognition of Competitive Cheer as an Emerging Sport for Women 52 Boston College Law Review 439 (March, 2011) This Article examines whether a university can count opportunities in competitive cheer to demonstrate compliance with Title IX. A federal court in Connecticut recently considered this question for the first time. Although it held that the sport as it currently exists is not sufficiently similar to other varsity sports to qualify for Tide...; Search Snippet: ...Boston College Law Review March, 2011 Symposium Issue Article the Feminist Case for the Ncaa's Recognition of Competitive Cheer as an Emerging Sport for Women Erin E. Buzuvis [Fna1] Copyright © 2011 by Boston College Law... 2011 Yes  
Jennifer M. Chacón The Mercer Girls Guide to Immigration 64 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 15 (2/22/2011) I. The Payoffs (and Limitations) of Reconceiving Immigration History. 18 A. Reframing Settlement. 19 B. Reframing Immigration Law. 21 C. Expanding Immigration Law. 22 D. Understanding the Role of Marriage in Immigration History. 25 E. Gender and Family Structure in Immigration Law. 27 II. Conclusion. 28; Search Snippet: ...Law Review En Banc February 22, 2011 Response the Mercer Girls Guide to Immigration Jennifer M. Chacón [Fna1] Copyright © 2011 Vanderbilt... 2011 Yes  
Caroline Bermeo Newcombe The Origin and Civil Law Foundation of the Community Property System, Why California Adopted It, and Why Community Property Principles Benefit Women 11 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class Class 1 (Spring 2011) Development of the community property law of the western states has gone hand in hand with the general emancipation of women from the economic bonds which have so long burdened them. When a California wife scared hogs out of her mud kitchen in 1832, she had some things in common with a Visigothic wife living in fifth century Spain. Both women...; Search Snippet: ...Why California Adopted It, and Why Community Property Principles Benefit Women Caroline Bermeo Newcombe [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2011 University of Maryland... 2011 Yes  
Barbara Stark The Women's Convention, Reproductive Rights, and the Reproduction of Gender 18 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 261 (Spring 2011) Traditionalists, whether working within a religious or a scientific framework, have regarded women's subordination as universal, God-given, or natural, hence immutable . . . . The traditionalist explanation focuses on women's reproductive capacity and sees in motherhood woman's chief goal in life . . . . Thus the sexual division of labor based on...; Search Snippet: ...Policy Spring 2011 the Changing Face of Families Article the Women's Convention, Reproductive Rights, and the Reproduction of Gender Barbara Stark [Fna1] Copyright (C) 2011 Duke Journal of Gender... 2011 Yes  
Becky L. Jacobs Unbound by Theory and Naming: Survival Feminism and the Women of the South African Victoria Mxenge Housing and Development Association 26 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 19 (Winter 2011) The emergence of a uniquely African formulation of feminism is one of the most energizing developments in feminist theory and discourse in recent history. As African women confront unprecedented economic and political challenges, they also are questioning, and, in some instances, redefining, individual and societal orthodoxies of gender and family...; Search Snippet: ...Article Unbound by Theory and Naming: Survival Feminism and the Women of the South African Victoria Mxenge Housing and Development Association... 2011 Yes African/Black American
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