Without Prejudice: Women in the Law eBook

Without Prejudice: Women in the Law eBook

Gill Gatfield

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Date: 01/04/2021

Code: 9781988553160

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Without Prejudice is a comprehensive and key resource that will inform and advance the current debates and solutions relating to sexual harassment and discrimination of women in the law.

 

Published in 1996, the book documents over 40 years of substantive evidence of sexual harassment and discrimination in the legal profession and judiciary, and describes the law societies, law firms and government’s inaction in response to that evidence.  Involving 4 years of comprehensive primary and secondary research, the author Gill Gatfield consulted widely with law societies, employers, judges, women lawyers’ groups, and leaders within the profession; including interviewing and surveying more than 1500 women and men lawyers.

 

Without Prejudice: Women in the Law speaks directly to the issues the legal profession faced in the early 1990s and continue to face today.  Each chapter in the book addresses aspects of direct contemporary relevance – collegiality, the old boy’s network, more time and more numbers, sexual harassment, discrimination, bias, the bench, obstacles to change and the need for action.  The author analyses the historical, cultural and structural frameworks that underpin the unequal and unlawful treatment of women and minorities within the legal profession and judiciary, and outlines how those frameworks can be changed to achieve just and equitable outcomes for women and minority groups within legal workplaces.

 

Without Prejudice will be of interest to the legal profession, judiciary, policy and lawmakers, academics, women lawyers groups, media and other commentators; and to those in business and other sectors who are also contending with the shifting ground of gender relations in the workplace.

 

 

About the Author:  Gill Gatfield LLB. MFA(Hons)

Author, artist and human rights advocate Gill Gatfield brings an amicus curiae perspective to the subject of gender equity. She adds insight to the complex issues facing the legal profession and the judiciary, providing expert analysis of data, facts and testimony to demonstrate how cultural and systemic bias operate within workplaces.

Gill Gatfield has worked in legal practice in commercial and family law, as a senior advisor on human rights law at the Ministry of Women, and in law reform at the New Zealand Law Society. She represented the Minister for Women on the Inquiry into Women in Combat, advised on international human rights conventions, pornography law reform, and child support tax reform. In 1992, she founded and directed Equity Works Ltd, undertaking investigations into workplace harassment and discrimination, and advising private and public sector organisations on equality and diversity strategies, before returning to University to complete an arts degree in 2004.

Gatfield combines her human rights advocacy work with her international sculpture practice. She was Juror of the 18th International Open 2015 Chicago, an open competition for women artists worldwide, and is an activator in Global Women, a multi-sector organisation of women leaders. As 2015 national Women’s Museum Denmark artist in residence, she created Glass Ceiling/Glasloft, a heritage room with a 'step up' made from tonnes of smashed glass, marking 100 years of women’s suffrage in Denmark. She tracks the progression of women in the law and, in 2016, initiated the NZ law society commemoration of 120 years of women in the law in Auckland, releasing a hardback limited edition of Without Prejudice in international suffrage colours, with the new subtitle – Same Issue/New Cover.

 

Editorial Reviews

Dr Anna Hood, University of Auckland

All who have an interest in the treatment of women in the legal profession need to read Without Prejudice: Women in the Law, Gill Gatfield’s meticulously researched book on the experiences and position of women in the New Zealand legal profession from 1896-1996. While the book was written 22 years ago, it remains the most thorough, thought-provoking and valuable text on women in the law in this country and its pages contain information that is critical for us to understand if we are to have any hope of transforming the experiences of female lawyers in New Zealand.

 

Prof. Margaret Wilson, Waikato University

The book deserves a wider audience than legal academics, students, and the legal profession. It will be welcomed by anyone interested in understanding the legal system in New Zealand or seeking solutions to gender inequality in the workplace.

 

Table of Contents

The Research

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One: The Past

Chapter 1 The Law Against Women Lawyers: 1840-1882

Chapter 2 The Law Allowing Women Lawyers: 1883-1896

Chapter 3 Training and Employment of Women in the Profession: 1896- 1977

Chapter 4 The Old Boys’ Network: 1896-1970s

Chapter 5 Proving Ability: Women Lawyers 1896-1970s

Chapter 6 Liberation and Discrimination 1970-1989

 

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