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Women in the Legal Profession: Bibliographies

Bibliographies

Lawyers and Balanced Lives: Selected Bibliography

Deborah L. Rhode

 

Boston Bar Association, Task Force on Professional Challenges and Family Needs, Facing the Grail: Confronting the Cost of Work-Family Imbalance (1999).

_____, Task Force on Professional Fulfillment, Expectations, Reality, and Recommendations for Change (1998).

Carson, Clara and Barbara Curran, The Lawyer Statistical Report: The U.S. Legal Profession in the 1990s (1994).

Catalyst, A New Approach to Flexibility: Managing the Work Time Equation (1997).

_____, Flexible Work Arrangements Part III (1998).

_____, Flexible Work Arrangements IV (2000).

Chanen, Jill Schachner, “Daddy’s Home,” ABA J., Nov., 2000, at 91 (quoting Williams).

Chavez, Linda, Results of Lawyers Work and Family Study of Alternative Schedules at Law Firms in the District of Columbia (unpublished ms., check with Williams).

Drachman, Virginia G., Sisters in Law: Women Lawyers in Modern American History (1998).

Epstein, Cynthia Fuchs, et al., Glass Ceilings and Open Doors: Women's Advancement in the Legal Profession, 64 Fordham L. Rev. 291 (1995).

_____, Carroll Seron, Bonnie Oglensky, and Robert Saute, The Part-Time Paradox: Time Norms, Professional Lives, Family, and Gender (1999).

Harvard Women’s Law Association, Presumed Equal: What America’s Top Women Lawyers  Really Think About Their Firms (1995).

Hochschild, Arlie with Ann Machung, The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (1997).

National Association of Law Placement, Keeping the Keepers: Strategies for Associate Retention in Times of Attrition (1998).

_____, Jobs and JDs: Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates (1999).

_____, Perceptions of Partnership: The Allure and Accessibility of the Brass Ring (1999).

Nossel, Suzanne and Elizabeth Westfall, Presumed Equal: What America’s Top Women Lawyers Really Think About their Firms (2d ed. 1998).

Rhode, Deborah L., In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profession (2000).

_____, Speaking of Sex: The Denial of Gender Inequality (1998).

Schor, Juliet B., The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (1991).

Seron, Carroll, The Business of Practicing Law: The Work Lives of Solo and Small Firm Attorneys (1996).

Williams, Joan, Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It (2000).