The Making of Legal Elites and the IDIA of Justice

Basheer, Shamnad; Krishnaprasad, KV; Mitra, Sree; Mohapatra, Prajna

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“…Similarly, neither is this to suggest that lawyers were advantaged because law schools were created with intention to create egalitarian workspaces. The new national law schools were hardly designed as feeder schools for law firms (Ballakrishnen forthcoming), and these schools remain gender imbalanced and unequal in other important ways (e.g., Ballakrishnen and Samuel forthcoming re: recruiting female faculty and creating feminist spaces; Basheer et al re: caste and class inequality). Instead, the gender equal entry into these schools—and subsequent reinforcement in these firms—was predicated on other factors like a high threshold for entry that attracted the most competitive students (regardless of gender), and new kinds of testing (which were not yet gender typed).…”

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Nevertheless They Persisted: Gendered Frameworks and Socialization Advantages in Indian Professional Service Firms

Ballakrishnen

2018

Canadian Review of Sociology

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This article uses the Indian case to offer nuance to narratives about the gendered experience of professional work. I find that while gendered constructs certainly infiltrate all workspaces, there remain occupational and organizational differences in the ways in which women experience their environments. Particularly, while Indian women lawyers overall are more disadvantaged than their international counterparts, the experience of women lawyers in very elite law firms is more favorable than both their local and global peers. A confluence of factors might be responsible for this unusual experience of professional work, but this article highlights the importance of one set of supply side dynamics: the variations in socializing experiences and expectations before entry into these firms. In doing so, it adds to the literature that suggests the importance of not just enrollment parity, but also early training and institutional socialization for gender egalitarian professional outcomes.

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Nevertheless They Persisted: Gendered Frameworks and Socialization Advantages in Indian Professional Service Firms

Ballakrishnen

2018

Canadian Review of Sociology

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The Making of Legal Elites and the IDIA of Justice

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Nevertheless They Persisted: Gendered Frameworks and Socialization Advantages in Indian Professional Service Firms

Nevertheless They Persisted: Gendered Frameworks and Socialization Advantages in Indian Professional Service Firms

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