Gender, choice, and commitment : women solicitors in England and Wales and the struggle for equal status / Hilary Sommerlad, Peter Sanderson.
1998
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Author
Title
Gender, choice, and commitment : women solicitors in England and Wales and the struggle for equal status / Hilary Sommerlad, Peter Sanderson.
Published
Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate/Dartmouth, [1998]
Copyright
©1998
Call Number
KD472.W65 S65 1998
ISBN
1840144548
Description
xii, 348 pages ; 23 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)39615605
Note
"Socio-legal studies."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-330) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Cases Cited
Statutes
1
Introduction
1
2
Gender and the Legal Labour Market
15
3
'The Common Sense of Mankind': the Common Law and the Historical Exclusion of Women from the Legal Profession
49
4
'Bonds of Trust': From Informal Exclusion to Full Participation?
79
5
The Men's Room: Cultural Capital and the Fraternal Contract
119
6
'She's All Right for a Bird': The Accommodation of Women
153
7
The Meaning of the Career Break: Human Capital, Cultural Capital, Social Capital
197
8
Conclusion
255
Appendix
A Description and Discussion of Methods
291
Bibliography
307
Index
331