Gender, Choice and Commitment: Women Solicitors in England and Wales and the Struggle for Equal Status

by Peter Sanderson and Hilary Sommerlad

First published in 1998, reissued here with a new preface, this volume is the first full-length discussion of women's experiences in the solicitors' profession in the UK. It provides an account which is grounded in historical research and a contemporary research study. The authors explore this material to analyze both women's own experiences and the mainstream culture and structure of the profession. Following a treatment of the struggle against...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138385034
• ISBN13: 9781138385030
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 364 Pages