Not exact matches
When that green
lawyer woman talks about arraigning you and me before the European Court of Justice, she may be
mad, or bad, but she's acting in character, since environmentalists, as newcomers on the scene, have the privilege of defining their own role in society.
The
women lawyers in Laws of Attraction, Michael Clayton and I am Sam are understood to be
mad or monstrous because they are neurotic, ambitious, and bad mothers, respectively.
Each film illuminates at least one of the qualities of a
mad, presumptuous
woman lawyer: she is neurotic, ambitious, or a bad mother, or perhaps all three.
We know that popular films portray
women lawyers as
mad women, monstrous, or at the very least, less positively than men
lawyers, and research demonstrates that
women negotiators have less success than men negotiators when they are acting in their own interests.