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In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country's lawyers are female, but women in the most prestigious firms are significantly represented both at entry and partnership. Elite workspaces are notorious for being unfriendly to new actors, so what allows for aberration in certain workspaces? Drawing from observations and interviews with more than 130 elite professionals, this book examines how a range of underlying mechanisms - gendered socialisation and essentialism, family structures and dynamics, and firm and regulatory histories - afford certain professionals egalitarian outcomes that are not available to their local and global peers.

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