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WomenInThisBusiness 12 - 16 Jul 2010 - Main.KalliopeKefallinos
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| | When we were discussing Cerriere's Answer today, I thought Jessica brought up an interesting point about how women sometimes worry that they come across as "too edgy" when they speak. (Jessica, please correct me if I didn't accurately understand what you were saying). A female friend of mine here has mentioned this very issue to me on a couple occasions. She claims that female students, more often than male students, have a tendency to ask questions instead of make statements, of if they make a statement to soften it with a qualification such as "I feel like...."
Coincidentally, an article posted today on CLS' homepage mentions this as well. Professor Carol Sanger was honored at The Columbia Law Women’s Association annual Myra Bradwell Dinner, and this is a small excerpt from her speech: | | | There is little a female lawyer can do to persuade a client to hire her when he believes implicitly and unalterably that men make better lawyers. She will have to prove herself beyond the standards applied to successful men. And learn to not care the names and judgments muttered about her, except, of course, that of judges and juries.
-- CeciliaWang - 15 Jul 2010 | |
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Cecilia, what you say about objective evaluation standards as gender neutral is true, but this assumes that the evaluations themselves occur on an even playing field. For example, consider those studies where women perform worse than men on math tests, but only after they've been told that men generally are better at math. Similarly, evaluating lawyers in some objective way might prove fruitless if, for example, the female lawyers are only placed to work on certain projects/ cases or are made to believe certain things to begin with.
I thought your parallel to immigrants was interesting. I always figured the reason some immigrants strove for those careers was because doing so signified an improvement in their social status, a justification for essentially abandoning their mother country. But this is a tangent for another thread...
-- KalliopeKefallinos - 16 Jul 2010 | | | |
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