There's a lot of sweeties, honeys, and you're thinking, well we are here in a mediation, and you can call me counselor, thank you. It's a hard thing to come in from the north and get yourself into such a tight knit good old boy's system. Upon graduating law school, I moved to Charleston, South Carolina for my now husband. I'm one of 4 girls, so my dad just raised us to be really strong women. Kathryn Cockrill: it's got to be 400 times worse. Either you capitulate and miss out, or you are rude.Īlthough these stories can and do happen everywhere, there does seem to be more of it in the south. Saying "no" to a politely asked-even if not actually polite-request breaks the norms of polite society. Kimber Russell: Kathryn's story highlights the tough position sexism places women in. My name is Kathryn Cockrill, and I am an estate planning and probate attorney in Charleston, South Carolina. And I'm sure I came off so incredibly rude. Kathryn Cockrill: I remember specifically sitting in a conference room and him saying, sweetheart can you go get us some coffee? And there were other lawyers in there, and I almost felt like if I left the room to get everybody coffee, was I going to miss something, were they going to make deals without me? So it made me feel very uncomfortable, and I just said I don't know how to make coffee and I sat there and I just ignored their request. Even in the 21st century, it's around us in some obvious and some not so obvious ways. Over the next six weeks, we'll discuss how women are portrayed in popular culture, the profession's leaky pipeline, and more. Welcome to LST's mini-series about women in the law. Kathryn Cockrill: There's a lot of sweeties, honeys, and you're thinking, well we're here in a mediation, and you can call me counselor, thank you. And I think it was because they just hadn't had regular experience with women of color being attorneys. Kimberley Baker Guillemet: I was consistently asked if I was a secretary. And in the United States, there really was a time that males were attorneys and lawyers and females were support staff. Sarah Schnautz: "How much does she actually know?" "Wonder where she went to law school?" "How long has she been out?" "I wonder what kind of experience she has with this?"Įlizabeth Dickinson: We exist within this history of how gender works in the United States and around the world.
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