A recent discussion about combining family and professional lives in my gender and law
class revealed a schism. Some students felt that they could have and do it all—demanding …

While I was reading in preparation for today, I was struck by a passage in Cynthia Fuchs
Epstein's 1981 book, Women in Law. 1 In a chapter entitled" So Many Hours in the Day," she …

This study of graduates of the University of Michigan Law School from the late 1970s reports
on the differing ways that women and men have responded to the conflicting claims of work …

The motivation to write this paper came with the realization that one of the pressing
manifestations of sex inequity today is the fact that women and men do not have a similar …

The perennial tension between the demands of the workplace and the demands of family life
presents perplexing social and legal conundrums. Because each of us came from our lives …

I feel a certain sense of discomfort talking about women, work, and family from the
perspective of the legal profession. Part of my discomfort rests on the comparison of women …

In the conversations that take place among my female friends and colleagues, it is difficult to
think of a more popular topic than how to balance work and family. In the past year alone …

*** Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University. 1 Virginia G. Drachman,"
My'Partner in Law and Life': Marriage in the Lives of Women Lawyers in Late 19th and Early …

Ifeel that I have had to work harder in my career because of my sex. I have not been
hampered within my firm, which has two senior women partners, but as a trial attorney I have …

Women today have made dramatic progress educationally and professionally. More than
56% of all college graduates are women. 2 Fortyfive percent of the labor force is female, two …