Documentary Puts Struggles Of Women Lawyers in Generational Context (Review)

American women in the law have come a long way since Ruth Bader Ginsburg was at Harvard Law School in the 1950s, rushing back and forth between two buildings because only one had a women’s restroom.

But, as Ginsburg notes in the new documentary,Balancing The Scales , “we haven’t reached Nirvana yet.”

[Image “ginsburg” (src=https://bol.bna.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/ginsburg.jpg)] Her recorded remarks are just a small portion of the 40 interviews that filmmaker Sharon Rowen conducted over the course of 20 years, beginning in the mid-nineties, with female lawyers across a spectrum of age, expertise, and rank. Rowen, an Atlanta-based civil litigator who ...