By Gisela Shaw, Ulrike Schultz
ISBN-10: 1841133191
ISBN-13: 9781841133195
ISBN-10: 1847312071
ISBN-13: 9781847312075
Ladies legal professionals, below a century in the past nonetheless nearly a contradiction in phrases, have come to stick. who're they? the place are they? What effect have they'd at the occupation that has for therefore lengthy been a bastion of male domination? those are key questions requested during this first complete learn of girls within the world's criminal professions. solutions are in keeping with either quantitative and qualitative analyses, utilizing various conceptual frameworks. 26 contributions through 25 authors current and overview the placement of girls within the criminal occupation in either universal and civil legislations nations within the built global. 15 nations from 4 continents are coated: the us, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, England, Israel, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Finland, France, Italy, Brazil, Korea, and Japan. the focal point levels from judges and public prosecutors, to legislation professors, attorneys (attorneys), notaries and corporate legal professionals. nationwide adjustments are basically in facts, yet so are universal good points slicing throughout nationwide limitations. event of glass ceilings and revolving doorways is as frequent and as genuine as luck tales of girls attorneys pursuing their very own initiatives.
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This is supported by research done in Germany, Japan, and the USA and Finland. 7 Long-Hours Culture and the Dual Burden of Profession and Family The liberal professions have always been characterised by a philosophy of total commitment and a long-hours culture. At a time of cut-throat competition in the legal services market (Sommerlad), the time spent on work symbolises the good and successful lawyer. This means that the domestic scene needs to be left to somebody else. Women lawyers with children tend to lack both time as well as domestic support, as they still take on the bulk of family duties.
4 Provisional Conclusions Not surprisingly in an age of globalisation and internationalisation where national political, social and economic trends frequently coincide or at least impact on each other, our international comparison of the situation of women jurists has brought out a range of similarities and parallels. In continental Europe this has often been described (and criticised) as ‘Americanisation’. We have noted that due to the continuing gendered division of labour between the sexes in the family, female jurists work harder but stand fewer chances of professional success.
Kaminaga and Westhoff demonstrate persuasively that in Japanese society even professionally successful women who benefit from being members of a social elite never wholly escape being associated with the socially low status of their sex. Recognition of the dual burden of family duties and gainful employment carried by large numbers of women in all countries has led to various legislative measures (tax, social and labour legislation, regulations governing child care) being passed and intended to ease the pressure on them.