Publisher's Synopsis
This book is the first full-length discussion of womenÆs experiences in the solicitorsÆ profession in the UK. It provides an account which is grounded in historical research and a contemporary research study. The authors explore this material to analyze both womenÆs own experiences and the mainstream culture and structure of the profession. Following a treatment of the struggle against the formal exclusionary barriers to womenÆs entry to the profession, this book then seeks to identify the informal obstacles which were subsequently erected to womenÆs participation and career progression, and examine their persistence, in a modified form, into the contemporary era. The analysis draws on perspectives from feminist jurisprudence to the sociology of the professions to shed light on the processes which support womenÆs continued subordination in employment as lawyers.
