Cassandra Rymas
Blog week 3
Women in law are not equally represented. Per Current Glance Statics, for total judgeships, 27.1% are women, compared to the 73.9% that are men. Personally, I have seen this. Through my little experience, I already have, I've seen far more males in the courtroom and at the bench. Not only are women unrepresented, they’re also stereotyped. Women in law are seen to be cold and bicthy. Many see this because women are supposed to be soft and caring. That they have a lot of emotions and emotions aren’t logical. In a courtroom, you must be smart and logical. Gender roles make females emotional, not logical, like men.
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Legally blonde shows this great. The movie starts off with this blonde girl, who’s seen as an air head, who's only good at shopping. Another stereotype in its self. When she shows an interest in law, she’s told she won’t make it. She’s not smart enough. Which is a bunch of crap because if anyone has the will to go through all that schooling they will make it. She goes through the schooling and ends up kicking ass in the court room. Duh, females are great at arguing, so why wouldn’t they be great in the court room. If you haven’t seen it, you should watch it.
From my experience, I know guy lawyers who won’t start a debate with the female ones because they won’t win. At my internship, over lunch break, we would pick a topic and then two people would debate on it. I know this is very nerdy in a way. However, the females typically won. On one argument about character letters on twitter and why they should be limited a female won, the same female won why they shouldn’t be limited against someone else. Clearly, she’s good at arguing and debating. She is only one example that goes against the typical misconception that females make bad lawyers.
http://ms-jd.org/blog/article/media-portrayals-leading-ladies-and-law-identifying-stereotypes-film-and-tv
http://dtpr.lib.athabascau.ca/action/download.php?filename=mais/garymarshallProject.pdf
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