Sex Discrimination and Law Firm Culture on the Internet Lawyers at the Information Age Watercooler

by Baumle, Amanda K.

• ISBN13: 9780230613256
• ISBN10: 023061325X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Despite the availability of some formal legal remedies, women attorneys rarely sue their employers, and often do not challenge discriminatory behavior.This book explores this seemingly contradictory situation, where lawyers fail to employ the legal system on their own behalf.By exploring attorneys' use of legal discourse in an Internet community, Baumle examines whether the law can in fact serve as a useful tool to challenge inequality.The Internet community itself provides a protected, semi-anonymous forum in which to engage in such discourse, thereby subverting many of the barriers that currently exist to challenging gender inequality in the legal practice.

Author Biography

Amanda K. Baumle is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Houston. She specializes in sociology of law, demography, and social inequality. She has authored, coauthored, or edited several books and articles, including Same-Sex Partners: The Demography of Sexual Orientation and Demography in Transition: Emerging Trends in Population Studies.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Methods-Exploring an Internet Community	p. 11
Gender Inequality in the Legal Practice	p. 47
The Dispute Process in the Greedy Associates Community	p. 81
Employing Litigation to Redress Gender Inequality	p. 107
Lawyers Using Legal Discourse to Challenge Gender Discrimination	p. 131
Conclusion	p. 157
Notes	p. 181
References	p. 185
Index	p. 191
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