Sentences with phrase «male legal culture»

The ongoing debate [including on this blog] about the whether women in the law should conform to the dominant male legal culture often plays out as a question of what is the correct attire, in court, in the office and with clients.

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«The most important moral and legal rule concerning the physiological side of kinship,» he wrote in Sex, Culture, and Myth, «is that no child should be brought into the world without a man — and one man at that — assuming the role of sociological father, that is, guardian and protector, the male link between the child and the rest of the community.»
14 Humankind maintains a legal way of thinking about equality, which was created by Aristotle: legal equality is to treat similarly situated people alike.15 Therefore, «equality» becomes the right to be treated like the white male given that white man's culture is the dominant culture.16 In this way, when people are not similarly situated we should not treat them equally.
It is no longer legal to advertise job openings under «female» or «male» headings, but our culture still tends to classify many jobs this way.
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