Word: drachman
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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...