Titre
Models of Professionalism and Perceptions of Gender Discrimination in the Legal Professions
Type
chapitre
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Auteur(s)
Insarauto, Valeria
Auteure/Auteur
Boni-LeGoff, Isabel
Auteure/Auteur
Mallard, Grégoire
Auteure/Auteur
Lépinard, Eléonore
Auteure/Auteur
Le Feuvre, Nicky
Auteure/Auteur
Éditeur(s)
Bellini, Andrea
Maestrepieri, Lara
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
Maison d’édition
Palgrave
Titre du livre ou conférence/colloque
Professionalism and Social Change: Processes of Differentiation Within, Between and Beyond Professions
ISBN du livre
978-3-031-31277-9
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2023-08-31
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
This chapter explores to what extent the early stages of a legal career are characterised by alternative models of professionalism, and how these models relate to perceptions of gender discrimination. Drawing on quantitative data collected in the context of a comparative study on lawyers in France and in Switzerland, our study reveals four models of professionalism: alongside archetypical ‘male-centred organisational’ professionalism, which assumes the paradigmatic professional to be male, there are alternative models that are differently characterised and distributed among men and women in the two countries. In the case of women, all these models are related to perceptions of gender discrimination. These results suggest that, for female lawyers, a shift away from the male professional norm is only marginally related to new forms of power and sources of legitimacy within the legal profession. However, they also reveal that, in the long term, women may play a significant part in contesting and challenging this norm. The chapter contributes to the ‘within’ dimension of professionalism in that it exposes how, against a background of the occupation becoming extensively feminised, masculine standards of professionalism continue to function as an internal form of social closure that perpetuates gender inequalities within this profession.
Sujets
PID Serval
serval:BIB_19B13521D99D
Date de création
2022-09-29T14:12:19.931Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-20T19:35:06Z