Why are women lawyers perpetually under the sartorial microscope?

"Some 25 years ago, Mirabella magazine tolled the death knell for 'laughable dress-for-success suits and even more laughable floppy bow ties' and declared that working women could fly 'their own personal flag,'" Karen Erger writes in the June Illinois Bar Journal. "But here we are, still scrutinizing women lawyers and what comes out of their closets. Let's figure out why this is happening, and how (and whether) to talk about this in a way that doesn't denigrate the professionalism of women lawyers." Read her clever article. And don't skip the footnotes, where so much of the good stuff is.

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Mark S. Mathewson

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