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Trapped by a Paradox: Speculations on Why Female Law Professors Find it Hard to Fit into Law School Cultures
Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies
  • Beverly I. Moran
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2002
Keywords
  • race,
  • wealth,
  • discrimination,
  • class
Disciplines
Abstract

Feminist psychologists postulate that women are more people focused than men and therefore less likely to be attracted to rule oriented cultures that do not take into account personal differences and needs. This work postulates that the opposite is true of males and females who are attracted to law school teaching. Instead of rule oriented men and people oriented women, the legal academy is populated by women who believe that rules are meant to protect the weak against the tyranny of the strong and who then find themselves in "female" cultures ruled by men.

Citation Information
Beverly I. Moran. "Trapped by a Paradox: Speculations on Why Female Law Professors Find it Hard to Fit into Law School Cultures" Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies Vol. 11 (2002) p. 283
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/beverly_moran/15/