Sexuality at the Bar: An Empirical Exploration into the Experiences of LGBT&amp;#43; Barristers in England &amp; Wales

Mason, Marc; Vaughan, Steven

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“…However, notions of meritocratic competency were grounded in masculinism and were ultimately more beneficial for men. Mason and Vaughan (2017) surveyed and interviewed LGBTQ barristers in England and Wales finding work-related experiences of homophobia, biphobia and transphobia. Although usually out to colleagues, only a quarter of barristers were out to their clients.…”

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Policing and the CourtsThe maintenance of order and the exercise of authority and control are deeply gendered. Order, control and authority are socially and culturally coded as masculine. The social institutions that are responsible for upholding order and keeping control, such as the police and the courts, represent masculine authority and derive their legitimacy from this authority (Heidensohn, 1992). Such institutions uphold different kinds of control depending on the place and time in which they are located. Authoritarian forms of governance rely on 'hard' masculine authority, whereas liberal democratic governance is underpinned by norms of masculine rationality and paternalism-with recent shifts towards women and men working in partnership (Klatzer & Schlager, 2020;Marx Ferree, 2020). The coding of institutions of order, control and authority as masculine does not mean that only men work within them (although historically women were excluded from the police and legal professions). However, it does mean that cis heterosexual white men more closely fit the notion of ideal police officers, lawyers and judges. As gendered institutions, policing and the courts have masculine working cultures that shape how women and LGBTQ people fare within them. The masculinity of policing and the courts also affects how individuals

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Sexuality at the Bar: An Empirical Exploration into the Experiences of LGBT+ Barristers in England & Wales

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