Gender in the legal profession
Subtitle: fitting or breaking the mould
By: Joan Brockman.
Series: Law and society series,; Law and society series (Vancouver, B.C.)
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Women lawyers -- Canada; Sex discrimination against women -- Canada; Sex discrimination in employment -- Canada
Description: "The history of the legal profession in Canada and elsewhere is one of the exclusion of women, Aboriginals, ethnic and racial minorities, and those from less privileged classes. Joan Brockman has studied this phenomenon intensively, conducting interviews with fifty women and fifty men who had been called to the bar in British Columbia for three to seven years. She asks why such exclusion has been practiced and what its effects have been, particularly with respect to women."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-257) and index.