"My judge felt all women lawyers should take shorthand and should type, " Roberts recalled.
According to the Library of Congress, there were indeed women lawyers at the time.
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And many of the virtual law offices currently open are run by women lawyers.
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There are a few women lawyers in Massachusetts who would like to see that story deepened.
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"The social aspect is a very considerable one, for society to accept women lawyers, it's something new, " she says.
How many women lawyers, accountants, financial advisers and business owners do I know?
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Nor did I want to speak about women lawyers or later, female mediators.
It was the way things were when we women lawyers entered the profession and it is the way things are today.
My own behavior shocked me because I know plenty of women lawyers who are every bit as credentialed, interesting, and knowledgeable as men.
My sense is that things are somewhat better now for women lawyers, though obviously there is still a lot of room for improvement.
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But the placement officer was opposed to women lawyers, Roberts recalled.
At large law firms, women make up just 15% of equity partners, according to a survey released in October by the National Association of Women Lawyers.
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Outrage was particularly acute among the women lawyers who had delivered names, resumes, investigations and recommendations for judicial appointments to Governor Romney back in the years 2003 to 2007.
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But so long as BigLaw remains a professional sector that wields such enormous economic and political power, it is a mistake to urge women lawyers to give up the fight for parity there.
More and more women lawyers are opting out of the old school law firm mentality that require them to make impossible choices and, instead, are using technology to create thriving law practices that fit their lifestyle virtual ones, that is.
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And this was so short a time ago, for the woman lawyer in the abstract has not yet attained her majority, that the novelty of her very existence has scarcely begun to wear off, and the newspapers publish and republish little floating items about women lawyers along with those of the latest sea-serpent .
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Whether the law remains a good career choice for women (lawyers, secretaries, paralegals and the like) will remain to be seen.
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The denial is still striking, however, since in Wal-Mart the court struck down a class action on behalf of 1.5 million women who lawyers said all had suffered sex discrimination.
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In 1970, just 4.9% of lawyers were women and in 2010 that percentage jumped to 33.4.
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Several lawyers and women's activists said they were impressed with the breadth of the Verma committee's report.
Amnesty gives a list of recommendations for Afghanistan - from training more women as judges and lawyers, to extending peacekeeping patrols outside Kabul.
Some women of my generation of lawyers stayed to become equity partners or shareholders and they reaped great rewards for their endurance.
More than 100 women's rights activists, lawyers and ordinary citizens appeared before the commission during a recent hearing to offer suggestions for removing loopholes in the existing laws and scrapping some of its most offensive provisions.
If some of them wanted a break from domestic routine, they could volunteer to work on the PTA or, if they were wealthy enough, the charity fashion show. ("It is a tradition in the Guggenheimer family that all the men become lawyers and all the women work on committees, " said a story in the Times about some well-to-do New Yorkers.) Men were supposed to be the breadwinners.
Stereotypically, women might have searched for doctors, lawyers, and business executives because husbands with high earning potential could provide for the family.
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Girls grow up seeing women in powerful positions as doctors and lawyers on TV, but the media continues to promote stereotypes when it comes to programmers, often portraying them as geeky men.
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If they fail to agree to withhold the film's release in Pakistan, lawyers for some of the women in the film say they will seek a court injunction to prevent it being screened.
The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office says that it can put women like them in touch with charities and lawyers in the UK and Pakistan, but it cannot offer consular assistance to people who are not British nationals.
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