Female Supremacy Articles - Page 20

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For decades, feminist legal scholars have argued that male domination of the legal field is centrally responsible for the unequal treatment women receive in society. Regardless of attempts by male jurists to create legislation and case law to remove institutional obstacles to female advancement, such laws always remain the products of mens' minds, or at least of a system dominated by male sentiment.

Whether you think that feminism should be about gender-blindness or finding equality while embracing difference, there is a definite benefit, at least in terms of public perception, to having a female majority in our law schools.

On the one hand, this is another step for women, proving that they can come to dominate the same institutions that men can control and have controlled for many years. On the other hand, the female majority in the law schools probably heralds the beginning of a general shift in the kinds of perspectives that shape the law from primarily masculine to more inclusive of the feminine.