The Occurrence Of Gender Bias In Law School
Taylor Seda
COM499
Reflection Paper 9
1/14/13
“THE OCCURRENCE OF GENDER BIAS IN LAW SCHOOL”
Chapter 14 focused on Women in the Legal Profession and the challenges and changes they faced. “The Occurrence of Gender Bias in Law School”, was the subsection that I had enjoyed the most while reading because I thought it was ironic to have gender biases in a setting which both genders had to achieve a certain educational standard to be accepted into the program.
From the start Matias explains that feelings of alienation and dissatisfaction with the law school experience affect a number of students. A series of studies were conducted that indicated many female students have experienced the latter treatment from the hands of their faculty along with their fellow male students. Even more interestingly enough another study had shown that 96 percent of third-year female students reported a variety of remarks and behavior by law professors that made the female students found to be demeaning and offensive.
Considering I have never been in a situation where I was first hand experiencing these gender biases I question where they come from. I have however experienced a gender bias in a completely different situation where I felt like …show more content…
I especially thought that when Brownell said the decade ahead is likely to be characterized by a variety of social skills and technical skills but I did disagree when she had said that some of it would be traditionally male-linked. I feel as if in the decade ahead the management position will be characterized by women because the skills needed to be successful such as social and technical skills are skills that female possess greater than males. My only question is for this section is if women are resigning from corporate positions because of a glass ceiling how do they expect this to be broken for them to monopolize the management world in the
COM499
Reflection Paper 9
1/14/13
“THE OCCURRENCE OF GENDER BIAS IN LAW SCHOOL”
Chapter 14 focused on Women in the Legal Profession and the challenges and changes they faced. “The Occurrence of Gender Bias in Law School”, was the subsection that I had enjoyed the most while reading because I thought it was ironic to have gender biases in a setting which both genders had to achieve a certain educational standard to be accepted into the program.
From the start Matias explains that feelings of alienation and dissatisfaction with the law school experience affect a number of students. A series of studies were conducted that indicated many female students have experienced the latter treatment from the hands of their faculty along with their fellow male students. Even more interestingly enough another study had shown that 96 percent of third-year female students reported a variety of remarks and behavior by law professors that made the female students found to be demeaning and offensive.
Considering I have never been in a situation where I was first hand experiencing these gender biases I question where they come from. I have however experienced a gender bias in a completely different situation where I felt like …show more content…
I especially thought that when Brownell said the decade ahead is likely to be characterized by a variety of social skills and technical skills but I did disagree when she had said that some of it would be traditionally male-linked. I feel as if in the decade ahead the management position will be characterized by women because the skills needed to be successful such as social and technical skills are skills that female possess greater than males. My only question is for this section is if women are resigning from corporate positions because of a glass ceiling how do they expect this to be broken for them to monopolize the management world in the