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...Dilemma of Double Consciousness: Women Lawyers and the Challenge of Sexual Equaltiy, 1865-1935. Virginia Drachman, Schlesinger Library Visiting Scholar and Associate Professor of History, Tufts University. Schlesinger Library...
...Virginia Drachman, a professor of history at Tufts University, led off the discussion with a brief history of discrimination in the courtroom during the 19th and early 20th century...
...Drachman recounted stories of blatant discrimination against women--such as one judge's rule that banned any woman from the court who was not wearing a hat and white gloves--many audience members laughed out loud...
...when Drachman described a 1920 report that predicted equality in the law profession by 1950, the other panelists chuckled in their seats...
...brain loses an average of about 20% of its weight, but as Neurologist David Drachman of the University of Massachusetts points out, "there is redundancy in the brain. It's like the lights in Times Square. Suppose you turn off 20% of the bulbs: you'll still get the message." Speed of recall and mental performance slow, but essential skills remain intact. Researchers speculate that memory loss among the elderly may be something of a self- fulfilling prophecy. Old people are supposed to have memory problems, so they may be more aware of, and bothered by, occasional lapses than...