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SEXIST LANGUAGE: AN OVERVIEW FOR TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS

Jones, Cathy J

Law Library Journal, 1990-10, Vol.82 (4), p.673-843 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Chicago, etc: American Association of Law Libraries Law Library Journal

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  • Título:
    SEXIST LANGUAGE: AN OVERVIEW FOR TEACHERS AND LIBRARIANS
  • Autor: Jones, Cathy J
  • Assuntos: administrator ; association ; discrimination ; education law ; experienced ; family law ; labor & employment law ; Librarianship ; practitioners ; Profession ; questionnaire ; questionnaires ; relationship ; represented ; Sexism ; Social aspects ; suggestions
  • É parte de: Law Library Journal, 1990-10, Vol.82 (4), p.673-843
  • Notas: The author discusses problems of sexism and sexist language relevant to teachers and law librarians. She then offers suggestions for changing sexist language to nonsexist language and for making nonsexist the relationship between teacher and student, ...
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  • Descrição: The author discusses problems of sexism and sexist language relevant to teachers and law librarians. She then offers suggestions for changing sexist language to nonsexist language and for making nonsexist the relationship between teacher and student, administrator and staff person . In 1983, the Women's Law Association (WLA) at Western New England College School of Law circulated a questionnaire to students asking what types of programs they would like WLA to sponsor. One of the members of the WLA Steering Committee told me that in response to requests made on the questionnaires, the group planned to present a panel discussion by a group of male attorneys who would talk to our women students about how they should act upon entering the legal profession. I was appalled. After some discussion among themselves and with me, the Steering Committee members reached a compromise: they sponsored a panel with both women and men attorneys talking about women and men working together. As sometimes happens, the panelists did not discuss the assigned topic very much at all, but they did say some things of relevance to women attorneys and law students. Of the seven panelists -- four women and three men -- only one indicated she had ever experienced or witnessed discrimination against women in the practice of law. However, all the panelists described how, in their opinions, women attorneys in general prepare more and are better practitioners than their male colleagues. They also expressed the belief that every woman attorney represented ...
  • Editor: Chicago, etc: American Association of Law Libraries Law Library Journal
  • Idioma: Inglês

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