Women
in the Courts: A Work in Progress
15 Years After the Report of the New York Task Force
on Women in the Courts (June 2002)
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"Taken as a whole [responses to a
2001 questionnaire] suggest that to those who
spend their professional lives in New York's
courts, change is visible everywhere but so
is the persistence of troubling attitudes and
harmful practices." |
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Equal Justice, Equal Treatment, Equal Opportunity:
Appraising Change and Progress a Decade After the
Report of the New York Task Force on Women in the
Courts (May 1996) Not Available in electronic format
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"This report sounds a consistent theme:
impressive progress alongside persisting problems.
. . Women in courthouses and the court system
still find obstacles to the pursuit of their
legal claims, careers and profession that men
rarely confront." |
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The Report of
the New York Task Force on Women in the Courts (1986)
This piece was originally published in the Fordham Law Journal as Report of the New York Task Force on Women in the Courts, 15 Fordham Urb. L.J. 11 (1986). A PDF of this report and other related articles may be found on the Fordham Urban Law Journal.
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"Gender
bias against women litigants, attorneys and
court employees is a pervasive problem with
grave consequences. Women are often denied
equal justice, equal treatment and equal
opportunity." |
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Executive Summary of the Report of
the New York Task Force on Women in the Courts (1986)
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