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The Rise of Women Lawyers in India

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Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen. Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India’s Professional Elite. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2023

Fiona M. Kay
Fiona M. Kay*
Affiliation:
Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Email: [email protected]
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , February 2023 , pp. 351 - 356
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Bar Foundation

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Footnotes

She has written extensively on women and racialized groups in the legal professions. She is the coauthor (with John Hagan) of Gender in Practice (Oxford University Press, 1995) and the coeditor (with Richard Johnston) of Social Capital, Diversity, and the Welfare State (University of British Columbia Press, 2007).

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