This is true at the BigLaw level as well, where diversity — both in terms of people of color and in terms of advancing the role of
women in a profession where they are far less likely to end up at the top — seems to be framed simultaneously as incredibly important but also impossible.
Not exact matches
Although men outnumbered
women in the
profession in Vermont,
where I grew up, I always knew at least two or three
women who were serving churches.
Still, most of these hardships exist
in other
professions where women have children at far higher rates.
They might be the only two
women in the world who have bodies like that, so Im really glad that they chose a
profession where we all get to look at them all the time.
Btw, he's
in a
profession where he's around beautiful
women a lot, so it's a little surprising he doesn't meet anyone he's interested
in organically, though he seems pretty humble and could be the type to look for something deeper.
her
profession as worker
in an eletronic factories coincides with the mockery of third world
woman in «cyborg manifesto» and she chooses no resistance but settles
in a secluded asylim
where she meets another socially dysfunctional inmate who loves her.
In the end, there were four scenes: A serf's house
where the men discussed the tragedy while a mother nursed a dying child; an apothecary's store,
where members of the medical
profession debated cures for the plague; a church,
where monks considered causes of the illness while they worked on illuminated manuscripts and
where a priest was indifferent to a parishioner's pleas for help; and finally, a central market square
where traveling Franciscan monks declared their beliefs about the plague, flagellants whipped themselves and blamed the Jews, and an old
woman went crazy as she ranted about «the end of the world.»
Since 1978, Mayer has been implementing El Tendedero / The Clothesline Project
in various museums and communities throughout the United States, Mexico and South America, asking
women from different economic classes, ages and
professions to respond to the statements related to
where they live.
Others I follow religiously include Overlawyered,
where Walter Olson keeps a critical eye focused on the legal
profession; Legal
Profession Blog, which is unparalleled
in covering legal ethics; Real Lawyers Have Blogs,
where Kevin O'Keefe and his crew stay one step ahead of the social media curve; Law Librarian Blog,
where Joe Hodnicki never misses a beat
in tracking legal research and information; and beSpacific,
where Sabrina Pacifici has consistently functioned as a virtual one -
woman legal news bureau since 2002.
So we sent out the call to some of the most prominent
women in our community to see what impacted them most
in 2016 — and
where they think the legal
profession is headed this year.
A: «my answer would be — today, if you know
where to look for it,» writes Carolyn Elefant, adding later,»... the Committee on
Women in the
Profession is right about one thing: equality is lacking
in at least one place
in the legal
profession — and that is on the Committee on
Women in the
Profession itself.»