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- Gender Bias in the Courtroom: Challenges Confronting Women Litigators . . .
biases against women trial attorneys continue to pervade the courtroom despite the significant progress women attorneys have made in the last few decades Part III will address the perils of implicit bias in the legal profession This Part explains that gender bias undermines our legal system by jeopardizing fairness and equity
- Female Lawyers Still Face Sexism in the Courtroom - The . . . - The Atlantic
In more than a decade of arguing cases in court, I’ve witnessed the stubborn cultural biases female attorneys must navigate to simply do their jobs Last year, Elizabeth Faiella took a case
- Gender Bias In The Courts: Women Are Not Believed - Forbes
Many states created reports in the 1980s and 1990s documenting gender bias in the courts by raising issues ranging from sexism against female attorneys and judges to bias against female litigants
- Showing anger can backfire for female lawyers, studies say; law prof . . .
The research suggests that women lawyers are more likely to be judged in a harsher light than men when they display assertiveness, self-promotion or anger, according to University of California
- Gender Bias in the Courtroom: Overcoming . . . - Alvarez and Marsal
Gender bias seems even more unfair in the courtroom itself where double standards abound A 2018 study conducted by Arizona State University dissected perceptions of six trial lawyers, three male and three female, as they reenacted an aggressive closing argument from a real court case
- Gender Bias in the Courts - American Bar Association
The court cited California’s Code of Judicial Conduct, which states that gender bias can be grounds for lack of judicial impartiality and bars judges from words or conduct that manifest bias or prejudice based on gender
- Attrition, Bias, and Other Issues Adversely Impacting Women Attorneys . . .
Bias and implicit bias involve people holding negative stereotypes about a particular group of attorneys such as women, which can adversely impact how that group is treated Bias breeds mistrust, misjudgment, and resentment
- The Need for More Women Judges, Implicit Bias Training and Legal Action
Not all male lawyers and judges harbor sexist views of women, though many do The problem is that many of these men occupy positions of power Women make up only 33 percent of federal trial-court judges
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