Persistent Challenge of Gender and Law: Views From One Law School's Student Body

This work reports the findings of a survey of law students conducted at St. Mary's University School of Law (St. Mary's Law) in San Antonio, Texas, in the Fall 2000 semester. Modeled after and developed largely from a similar survey structured and utilized by the United States Merit Systems Protection Board to measure the issue of sexual harassment in the federal workforce, the survey measured the attitudes of St. Mary's law students on a variety of gender-related issues. Part II of this work will discuss the survey's findings with respect to gender equality within the legal profession. Part III discusses the survey's findings regarding sexual harassment within the government and private workforce. Part IV addresses the survey's findings with respect to the issue of rape and the increasing rate of this act of violence. Part V provides an overview of the survey's findings with respect to the issue of domestic violence. Part VI will discuss the survey's findings regarding abortion and other reproductive rights issues. Finally, Part VII provides some concluding thoughts and observations