WOMEN AND THE LAW
Brandeis, Susan
Women and the Law Unjust Discrimination By SUSAN BRANDEIS This is the last of a series of four short articles contributed to The Progressive by a leading woman attorney on Discrimination against...
...In this field, frankness impels me to say that the picture is rather gloomy, for women lawyers throughout the land, and particularly in the larger cities, are still discriminated against...
...Assistant Corporation Counsel, Assistant District Attorneys...
...Yet many women lawyers have in official and other capacities shown efficiency and ability to cope with the most intricate legal problems, as I have shown by my special reference to the work of Mrs...
...Some of the large law firms refuse us employment...
...I have always found women lawyers ready to serve on Citizens' Committees formed to draft proposed legislation...
...These discriminations once removed and women lawyers estimated solely upon merit, I feel certain we will soon produce outstanding women lawyers en-{a«ed in private practice comparable to the leaders among the men of the bar...
...This further limits our field of activity...
...She was made to say that Jeannette Rankin voted for the declaration of war in 1917 instead of that Miss Rankin voted against war...
...In mv own city, New York, one of the representative bar associations refuses to admit us lo membership...
...Women have also shown aptitude iu the handling of complicated and important legal matters as Assistants- in the Attorney General's office...
...Upon my arrival in New York I sought employment with one of the large law offices which was denied me, although by way of consolation I was assured by the prominent lawyer at the head of the firm to whom I made my application, that were I of the opposite sex I could have almost any position I desired with his law firm...
...Women and the Law Unjust Discrimination By SUSAN BRANDEIS This is the last of a series of four short articles contributed to The Progressive by a leading woman attorney on Discrimination against Women Lawyers.—B...
...They have likewise given their time without stint to public causes...
...If I have any plea to make, it is that this unjust discrimination should cease and a step to bring that condition about would be for women to show a larger measure of faith In the ability of women at the bar to represent them in all legal matters no matter how complicated...
...Other large firms which give employment to very few women lawyers do so almost invariably upon a quota basis...
...Willebrandt and Florence Allen...
...Let me conclude by saying thnl women can raise many additional oham-oions for themselves if they but give to women lawyers the support they deserve...
...In private practice many have shown unusual ability in both civil and criminal law...
...In addition, we are discriminated against by many men and, I regret to be compelled to say, women who have not enough confidence in us, solely on account of our sex, to entrust to us legal matters of importance and magnitude...
...C. L. When the 1920 census was taken there were 1600 women engaged in the practice of law in the United States...
...We are thus in large numbers denied contact with the weighty and intricate legal problems which naturally gravitate to those law offices...
...A CORRECTION A serious error occurred in Susan Brandeis' article in the February first issue...
...This number undoubtedly has been largely increased since then...
...I became a member of the profession subsequent to 1920...
Vol. 1 • February 1930 • No. 10
