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Book Review - Jean McKenzie Leiper's Bar Codes: Women in the Legal Profession - [Jean McKenzie Leiper, Bar Codes: Women in the Legal Profession, UBC Press, Toronto, 2006, ISBN 978–0-7748-1320-4, pp. 242, $29.99]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

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References

1 See, e.g., It's Harder in Heels: Essays by Women Lawyers Achieving Work-Life Balance (Jacquelyn Slotkin, and Samantha Slotkin Goodman eds., 2007); Lindsay Blohm & Ashley Riveira, Presumed Equal: What America's Top Women Lawyers Really Think about Their Firms (2006); see also http://www.expertlaw.com/library/practice_management/work_balance.html; and http://www.legalsanity.com/articles/worklife-balance/.Google Scholar

2 Jean McKenzie Leiper, Bar Codes: Women in the Legal Profession 15 (2006).Google Scholar

4 Id. at 18.Google Scholar

5 Id. at 28.Google Scholar

6 Id. at 79.Google Scholar

7 Id. at 102.Google Scholar

8 Id. at 10.Google Scholar

9 Id. at 141.Google Scholar

10 Id. at 142.Google Scholar

11 Id. at 174.Google Scholar

12 See, e.g., Nancy F. Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (1987).Google Scholar

13 Leiper, supra note 2, at 29.Google Scholar

14 Id. at 37.Google Scholar

15 Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) 1982, c. 11, enacted as Schedule B: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, sec. 15 Equality Rights. Prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, including pregnancy.Google Scholar

16 For examples of predominant issues shaping women's experiences in law, see Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment (1990).Google Scholar

17 Leiper, supra note 2, at 77.Google Scholar

18 Id. at 177.Google Scholar

19 Id. at 77 and 188.Google Scholar

20 See supra note 1.Google Scholar

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22 Id. at 179.Google Scholar