Add to ORKGCommission has released statistics relating to professional discipline against Queensland lawyers that reveal a disparity according to the sex of the lawyer. The Annual Report notes that female lawyers are proportionally three times less likely to receive complaints and prosecutions than male lawyers. This article discusses discipline in the context of the plethora of literature examining the experience and practice of women in the legal profession. While the article ultimately raises many unanswered questions, it is contended that the figures reflect the continuing barriers faced by women practising law in Queensland. In its Annual Report for 2005–06, the Queensland Legal Services Commission (LSC), an independent statutory office administe...
In the past two decades, the gender composition of the legal profession in the United States has cha...
The women in law literature review is part of our Women in Leadership in the Law project. The revie...
As a patriarchal society, Pakistan's legal profession is a male-dominated profession. In recent year...
This report examines the experiences of women in the legal profession – focusing on discrimination,...
In addition to collating details of the demographic and working habits of over 2500 QLS members, the...
In many jurisdictions, lawyer-run discipline systems are inefficient, overly lenient and insufficien...
but disappeared. Over the past two decades the number of women graduating from law school and practi...
[Extract] It has been almost 20 years since the ground-breaking report of the Australian Law Reform ...
This article reports on the results of a study undertaken by the author together with her research a...
It’s a conundrum. Why haven’t women progressed in the upper echelons of the legal profession relativ...
Many law societies in Canada have responded to studies documenting gender bias and sexual harassment...
This article demonstrates that there is a gender divide on law school faculties. Women work in infer...
Women have been members of the legal profession for over a century. In recent years, the legal profe...
Women solicitors remain a minority in the Queensland legal profession, and they do not reach the sen...
In 2004, the Indiana Supreme Court Race and Gender Commission undertook a large survey of lawyers\u2...
In the past two decades, the gender composition of the legal profession in the United States has cha...
The women in law literature review is part of our Women in Leadership in the Law project. The revie...
As a patriarchal society, Pakistan's legal profession is a male-dominated profession. In recent year...
This report examines the experiences of women in the legal profession – focusing on discrimination,...
In addition to collating details of the demographic and working habits of over 2500 QLS members, the...
In many jurisdictions, lawyer-run discipline systems are inefficient, overly lenient and insufficien...
but disappeared. Over the past two decades the number of women graduating from law school and practi...
[Extract] It has been almost 20 years since the ground-breaking report of the Australian Law Reform ...
This article reports on the results of a study undertaken by the author together with her research a...
It’s a conundrum. Why haven’t women progressed in the upper echelons of the legal profession relativ...
Many law societies in Canada have responded to studies documenting gender bias and sexual harassment...
This article demonstrates that there is a gender divide on law school faculties. Women work in infer...
Women have been members of the legal profession for over a century. In recent years, the legal profe...
Women solicitors remain a minority in the Queensland legal profession, and they do not reach the sen...
In 2004, the Indiana Supreme Court Race and Gender Commission undertook a large survey of lawyers\u2...
In the past two decades, the gender composition of the legal profession in the United States has cha...
The women in law literature review is part of our Women in Leadership in the Law project. The revie...
As a patriarchal society, Pakistan's legal profession is a male-dominated profession. In recent year...