Women in the world's legal professions / edited by Ulrike Schultz and Gisela Shaw.

Oxford : Hart, 2003.

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Women lawyers.

Introduction : Women in the world's legal professions : overview and synthesis / Ulrike Schultz

Part 1. Women lawyers in the common law world: 1. Gender and the profession : an American perspective / Deborah Rhode

2. The effect of lawyer gender on client perceptions of lawyer behaviour/ William Felstiner et al

3. Gender in context : women in family law / Lynn Mather

4. Barriers to gender equality in the Canadian legal establishment / Fiona M McKay and Joan Brockman

5. Engendering the legal profession : the education strategy / Mary Jane Mossman

6. Women in the legal profession : the Australian profile / Rosemary Hunter

7. Women barristers and gender difference in Australia / Rosemary Hunter

8. New Zealand Women lawyers at the end of the twentieth century / Georgina Murray

9. The status of women lawyers in the United Kingdom / Clare M S McGlynn

10. Strategies for reforming the English solicitor's profession : an analysis of the business case for sex equality / Clare M S McGlynn

11. Prospects for parity : the position of women in the judiciary in England and Wales / Kate Malleson

12. Can women lawyer differently? : A perspective from the UK / Hilary Sommerlad

13. The remains of the day : the women law professors project / Celia Wells

14. Lawyers in the courtroom : gender, trials and professional performance in Israel / Bryna Bogoch

Part 2. Women lawyers in the civil law world: 15. The status of women lawyers in Germany / Ulrike Schultz

16. Women lawyers in Germany : perception and construction of femininity / Ulrike Schultz

17. Women lawyers in the new federal states of Germany : from quantity to quality? / Gisela Shaw

18. Women in the Dutch legal profession, 1950-2000 / Leny E de Groot-van Leuwen

19. Choices in context : life histories of women lawyers in the Netherlands / Heleen F P Ietswaart

20. Women lawyers in Poland under the impact of post-1989 transformation / Malgorzata Fuszara

21. Women jurists in Finland at the turn of the century : breakthrough or intermezzo? / Harriet Silius

22. Male strategies in the face of the feminisation of a profession : the case of the French judiciary / Anne Boigeol

23. Professional body and gender difference in court : the case of the first (failed) woman lawyer in modern Italy / Vittorio Olgiati

24. Women in the judiciary : a perspective from Brazil / Eliane Botelho Junqueira

25. Lee Tai-Young (1914-1998) : the pioneer woman lawyer of South Korea / Haesook Kim

26. Women lawyers in Japan : contradictory factors in status / Yuriko Kaminaga and Jörn Westhoff.

Series published for the Oñati Institute for the Sociology of Law.

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