Keeping gender on the agenda : theorising the systematic barriers to women lawyers in corporate legal practice Bagust, Joanne 2012, Keeping gender on the agenda : theorising the systematic barriers to women lawyers in corporate legal practice, Griffith law review, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 137-163. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads bagust-keepinggender-2012.pdf Published version application/pdf 383.81KB 280 Title Keeping gender on the agenda : theorising the systematic barriers to women lawyers in corporate legal practice Author(s) Bagust, Joanne Journal name Griffith law review Volume number 21 Issue number 1 Start page 137 End page 163 Total pages 27 Publisher Griffith University, Law School Place of publication Nathan, Qld. Publication date 2012 ISSN 1038-3441 Keyword(s) gender women lawyers corporate legal practice Summary Despite the implementation of policies and procedures to redress the gender imbalance at the higher echelons in Australian corporate law firms, only a paucity of women successfully tread the path to equity partnership. In this article, it is argued that it is the systemic, rather than the overt, barriers that present the major obstacle to sexual equality within the corporate legal workplace. Neo-Marxian thought, in particular the work of Charles Derber on the proletarianisation of professional workers, as well as contemporary feminist thought, is utilised to explore why profoundly gendered assumptions in relation to the 'ideal worker' norm remain deeply embedded in the mindsets and attitudes of those organising the legal workplace. It is suggested that fear of change to work practices within firms has not only an ideological but also a material base. It is economically determined. Highly trained women lawyers with family work responsibilities who take up flexible work arrangements in firms are fulfilling a proletarian role and their under-utilised labour is being extracted to increase profit share at the apex and facilitate the progress of their unencumbered colleagues along the path to partnership. Language eng Field of Research 180121 Legal Practice, Lawyering and the Legal Profession Socio Economic Objective 940502 Professions and Professionalisation HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2012, Griffith University, Law School Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30049371 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Business and Law Law Open Access Collection   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Wed, 07 Nov 2012, 15:06:27 EST Thu, 08 Nov 2012, 09:20:12 EST Thu, 08 Nov 2012, 09:37:22 EST Thu, 08 Nov 2012, 09:38:23 EST Tue, 13 Nov 2012, 13:24:17 EST Tue, 13 Nov 2012, 13:30:46 EST Mon, 09 Sep 2013, 09:16:55 EST Wed, 21 Oct 2015, 14:37:37 EST Tue, 06 Sep 2016, 20:06:09 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 12:37:58 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 16:19:43 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 4 times in TR Web of Science Cited 2 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 239 Abstract Views, 280 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Wed, 07 Nov 2012, 15:06:17 EST by Beatrice Fitzgerald