Unequal Profession
eBook - PDF

Unequal Profession

Race and Gender in Legal Academia

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Unequal Profession

Race and Gender in Legal Academia

About this book

This book is the first formal, empirical investigation into the law faculty experience using a distinctly intersectional lens, examining both the personal and professional lives of law faculty members.

Comparing the professional and personal experiences of women of color professors with white women, white men, and men of color faculty from assistant professor through dean emeritus, Unequal Profession explores how the race and gender of individual legal academics affects not only their individual and collective experience, but also legal education as a whole. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative empirical data, Meera E. Deo reveals how race and gender intersect to create profound implications for women of color law faculty members, presenting unique challenges as well as opportunities to improve educational and professional outcomes in legal education. Deo shares the powerful stories of law faculty who find themselves confronting intersectional discrimination and implicit bias in the form of silencing, mansplaining, and the presumption of incompetence, to name a few. Through hiring, teaching, colleague interaction, and tenure and promotion, Deo brings the experiences of diverse faculty to life and proposes a number of mechanisms to increase diversity within legal academia and to improve the experience of all faculty members.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Investigating raceXgender in Legal Academia
  6. 1. Barriers to Entry
  7. 2. Ugly Truths Behind the Mask of Collegiality
  8. 3. Connections and Confrontations with Students
  9. 4 Tenure and Promotion Challenges
  10. 5 Leading the Charge
  11. 6 In Pursuit of Work/Life Balance
  12. Conclusion: Implementing Support, Strategies, and Solutions
  13. Appendix: Methodological Approach
  14. Notes
  15. Index