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		<title>Women Clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:54:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela N. Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cynthia Cooper explores the gendered makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court clerks and the fact that women clerks seem to be stuck at the “1/3 mark,” having never comprised more than 1/3 of all U.S. Supreme Court Clerks.  The reason this is important, is that a U.S. Supreme Court clerkship is seen as a prestigious springboard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenaslawyers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17751549&amp;post=448&amp;subd=womenaslawyers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where are all the women SCOTUS litigants?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela N. Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the time Tammy Sarver, Erin Kaheny, and John Szmer wrote The Attorney Gender Gap in U.S. Supreme Court Litigation, women occupied less than a quarter of the US. district court and courts of appeals seats, just one woman sat on the Supreme Court, and only 20 percent of law school deans were women (Sarver, Kaheny [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenaslawyers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17751549&amp;post=440&amp;subd=womenaslawyers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Special Interview with Justices O&#8217;Connor and Ginsburg</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela N. Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 Women&#8217;s Conference featured an interview with trailblazers Justices Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Diane Sawyer asked the Justices a variety of questions and portions of the event were televised on ABC, which can be viewed as follows: 5-Minute Clip of Justices O&#8217;Connor and Ginsburg speaking about law school, as U.S. Supreme [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenaslawyers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17751549&amp;post=431&amp;subd=womenaslawyers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Presentation on Women in the Legal Profession</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela N. Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click to Download: PowerPoint Presentation on Women in the Legal Profession I have learned and accomplished a lot during my last four months of research.  I have read over 75 articles, posted to this blog more than 50 times, created a 16-page timeline of Women in the Legal Profession (with 118 source citations), and have had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenaslawyers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17751549&amp;post=418&amp;subd=womenaslawyers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Experiment on Jurors&#8217; Perceptions of Women Advocates</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela N. Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article reports on an experiment conducted at a program sponsored by the ABA’s Woman Advocate Committee entitled “He Said/She Said: Jurors’ Perceptions of Women Advocates.” The program was designed to test the reactions of male and female mock jurors during two 10 minute closing arguments, both made by women attorneys using contrasting presentation styles (one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenaslawyers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17751549&amp;post=408&amp;subd=womenaslawyers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women Judges Advise, &#8220;Woman Up&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://womenaslawyers.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/women-judges-advise-woman-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela N. Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a panel of women judges at the ABA’s Women in Law Leadership Academy in May 2010, one of the distinctions between men and women lawyers is that “women in general lack the confidence that men seem to have in the courtroom” (Passarella 2010).  U.S. District Judge Norma Shapiro advised the group of 500 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenaslawyers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17751549&amp;post=402&amp;subd=womenaslawyers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Difference in Judicial Discourse; Value in Exploring Role of Law Clerks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 17:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela N. Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maveety’s article reviews the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings and the infamous “wise Latina” exchanges that prompted concern over the possibility that judges render decisions based on their gender or world view (Maveety 2010, 453).  Moreover, this article examines differing sentiments on whether women judges view cases differently.  For example, Justice O’Connor has often said “a wise old [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenaslawyers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17751549&amp;post=385&amp;subd=womenaslawyers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do we know about the influence of gender on judging?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela N. Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rhode weighs various conflicting evidence on whether gender influences judging and sums up the available literature in her article, In a “Different” Voice.  She finds after reviewing the current literature on the topic, that “gender matters in certain kinds of cases, in particular discrimination cases, which is one of the reasons why diversity should matter for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenaslawyers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17751549&amp;post=359&amp;subd=womenaslawyers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women Candidates in Judicial Elections</title>
		<link>http://womenaslawyers.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/women-candidates-in-judicial-elections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela N. Johnson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Candidates in Judicial Elections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In “Women Candidates and Judicial Elections: Telling an Untold Story,” Traciel Reid discusses the barriers women experience when campaigning in state court judicial elections.  “Currently, approximately one-half of all state judges reach their state court benches by winning partisan or nonpartisan races” (Reid 2010, 465).  This begs the question, “Do aspiring women judges experience similar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenaslawyers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17751549&amp;post=292&amp;subd=womenaslawyers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1989 Article Reveals Little Change for Women in Private Practice, yet Prosecutor as a Women-Friendly Role</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angela N. Johnson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Raggi’s 1989 article, women lawyers are not achieving positions of professional prominence in the private sector “in nearly the percentages that their numbers and class rank would indicate” (Raggi 1989, 975).  The current inequality of women lawyers in the private sector is similar to Raggi’s article, written back in 1989.  It is discouraging to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenaslawyers.wordpress.com&amp;blog=17751549&amp;post=339&amp;subd=womenaslawyers&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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