Blog # 26

Many places do not let women work alone or with other women, therefore, women are mostly assisted by men with their cases. Gender roles are certainly the main practice in this department because they are insisting that a male be present when a female is working on her case so he can oversee this process. They are making sure that the female does everything right, and showing her that the male worker is obviously smarter than her if he is overseeing her work. In Gender on Trial there are some female lawyers that have discussed the times that they had to be assisted by a male and they were looked down because their clients were expecting a man instead of a woman. One woman in particurly talked about how she was talking to her clients about their upcoming trial and since they would not listen to her she had to ask a male to come in and talk to them just to get them to listen to what she has done for them. It seems as though men have more credibility than women do, but that is inaccurate. Another woman talked about how when she talks to her customers at work she sees them ask someone else that same qquestion as if they don't believe her. This is just showing that the law profession has many gender expectations because they are showing that mena are still the dominating roles in our society. Client choose to ignore the female lawyers because they don't see them as stable and secure and they would rather go to a male for an answer or to get the work done simply because they will feel comfortable about their work and their answers. These women do not feel like they are given the same credibility even though they should because they have went to the same type of schooling the male lawyers have. It is unfair for anyone to not listen to you or decided to take their case somewhere else just because you are a woman. Now days gender expectations should be different because we have different gender roles in our society.