TY - BOOK ID - 77888233 TI - Gender trials : emotional lives in contemporary law firms PY - 1995 SN - 0520916409 0585033900 9780520916401 9780585033907 0520201078 0520201086 PB - Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Law firms KW - Practice of law KW - Sex role in the work environment KW - Law - U.S. KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Law - U.S. - General KW - Law KW - Law practice KW - Firms, Law KW - Lawyers KW - Social aspects KW - Practice UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77888233 AB - This ethnography examines the gendered nature of today's large corporate law firms. Although increasing numbers of women have become lawyers in the past decade, Jennifer Pierce discovers that the double standards and sexist attitudes of legal bureaucracies are a continuing problem for women lawyers and paralegals. ER -