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Zusatztext "[This] book provides a definitive resource for...understanding and for improving inequality in legal academia. If law schools are serious about attracting more minority students, and diversifying our faculties and the legal profession, then Unequal Profession should be assigned reading for a faculty retreat or a series of faculty dialogues." Informationen zum Autor Meera E. Deo is The Honorable Vaino Spencer Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School and the Director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE). Klappentext Meera E. Deo is Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and the Director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE). Zusammenfassung This book is the first formal! empirical investigation into the law faculty experience using a distinctly intersectional lens! examining both the personal and professional lives of law faculty members. Comparing the professional and personal experiences of women of color professors with white women! white men! and men of color faculty from assistant professor through dean emeritus! Unequal Profession explores how the race and gender of individual legal academics affects not only their individual and collective experience! but also legal education as a whole. Drawing on quantitative and qualitative empirical data! Meera E. Deo reveals how race and gender intersect to create profound implications for women of color law faculty members! presenting unique challenges as well as opportunities to improve educational and professional outcomes in legal education. Deo shares the powerful stories of law faculty who find themselves confronting intersectional discrimination and implicit bias in the form of silencing! mansplaining! and the presumption of incompetence! to name a few. Through hiring! teaching! colleague interaction! and tenure and promotion! Deo brings the experiences of diverse faculty to life and proposes a number of mechanisms to increase diversity within legal academia and to improve the experience of all faculty members. ...
