Disharmony and distrust -- Women in the legal profession

Author: [Australia] Margaret Santon / Xinchun Ying / Wang Li
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: This academic work is written by Margaret Santon, a law professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and is based on feminist experiential research. The book explores the experiences and insights of women in the Australian legal profession. Through interviews with over 100 women in the legal profession, it examines the relationship between women and the public sphere, investigates the formation of legal knowledge in Australian academia and the status of women as scholars and teachers in the academic field, and explores the experiences of women entering the legal profession and working as employed lawyers in private law firms and other practice settings. It summarizes the different historical scenes in which women across Australian states fought for entry into law schools and the legal profession. The authors' research challenges the mainstream perspective of traditional legal culture that portrays women as the "other" relative to standard men, advocating for more women to be "permitted entry" into the legal profession under equal conditions with men.