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Gender Equality
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
New Study Challenges Misperception that Gender Equality in the Legal Profession Has Been Achieved
By Tracy Thomas
Andrea K. Schneider, Abigail R. Bogli & Hannah L. Chin, The New Glass Ceiling, 2024 Wis. L. Rev. 1687 (2024)Until the last decade, gender inequality in the legal profession was…
Achkar Law Blog
Changes for Federal and Ontario Workers in 2025
As we enter 2025, significant updates to labour regulations are coming into effect for federally regulated workers and those in Ontario. These changes aim to address wage fairness, transparency, and…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Jennifer Hendricks on “Next Time Around: Abortion and Sex Equality”
By Jamie Abrams
Jennifer Hendricks has published Next Time Around: Abortion and Sex Equality in volume 63 of the American Studies journal. The introduction is excerpted below: Can the American legal system embrace and…
Simple Justice
The End Of An ERA, No Matter What Biden Does
No matter how many times it’s died, some people won’t let go of the Equal Rights Amendment. Having explained why it’s dead, and dead, and dead, before, even though I…
2Civility Blog
‘Decade of the Female Lawyer’: ABA Profile of the Legal Profession Predicts Gender Parity by 2026
By Marin McCall
The legal profession may reach gender parity by 2026, the 2024 ABA Profile of the Legal Profession predicts. The report has dubbed the years 2016 – 2026 as the “Decade…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Millennial Women Lawyers Demand Work-Life Balance
By Tracy Thomas
Anna Stolley Persky, Millennials Demand Work-Life Balance More Than Their Predecessors, But Challenges Remain, ABA J. (Dec. 1, 2024) Giugi Carminati, 41, had the first of her four children when she…
Canadian Lawyer Mag
Male lawyers may no longer outnumber female lawyers within 20 years: American Bar Association
A report highlighted the increase in the proportion of women in the US legal profession
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Gender, Constitutional Design, and Women’s Leadership in Executive Positions
By Tracy Thomas
Bringing to your attention prior work that is particularly relevant now.Paula Monopoli, Gender and Constitutional Design, 115 Yale Law J. 2643 (2006).Does the allocation of power between the legislative and…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Why America Still Doesn’t Have a Female President
By Tracy Thomas
The Atlantic, Why America Still Doesn't Have a Female President. Every Woman is the Wrong Woman.According to interviews I conducted with six researchers who study gender and politics, sexism was…
The Faculty Lounge
Taboo Trades Podcast: Busted: Policing Women On Top With Courtney Cahill
My guest today is Courtney Cahill, a Chancellor's Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law. Professor Cahill is a scholar of constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, sex equality, and…