Women lawyers have been aware of implicit bias and sexual harassment in the legal profession for decades but have found it difficult to speak out en masse.
A Twitter handle is helping them do just that. @LadyLawyerDiary was created in early 2018 by women lawyers to discuss “the universe of things women deal with” in the legal profession, Kendyl T. Hanks told Bloomberg Law. Hanks is an attorney with Greenberg Traurig in Austin.
This includes overt sexual harassment but also the many instances of subtle, systemic injustice in the profession, such as pay differential between men and women and unconscious ...
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