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Unequal Profession Race and Gender in Legal Academia

Meera E. Deo

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,...

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The book chronicled the paths, triumphs, and low points of law professors based on anonymized interviews to show different experiences based on race and gender in academia.

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Her book is called Unequal Profession. And in it, she chronicles the trajectory, paths, triumphs, low points of a group of professors.

— Episode: Cassandra Moment

Episode: Cassandra Moment

The book chronicled the paths, triumphs, and low points of law professors based on anonymized interviews to show different experiences based on race and gender in academia.

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Her book is called Unequal Profession. And in it, she chronicles the trajectory, paths, triumphs, low points of a group of professors.

And she notes, as an empirical portrait, the academy is almost 75% white, right? 25% minority. In terms of men versus women, it is also overwhelmingly male, right? And women of color make up just 7% of the professo she tells us.

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