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Gender Inequality in Law: Problems of Structure and Agency in Recent Studies of Gender in Anglo-American Legal Professions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Kathleen E. Hull  and
Robert L. Nelson
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , Summer 1998 , pp. 681 - 705
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 1998 

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