The legal academy lost one of its finest scholars and teachers when Professor Deborah Rhode of Stanford Law School died on January 8, 2020, at the age of 68. She was only the second woman to join the faculty there, a position she held for 41 years.
Professor Rhode was one of the nation’s leaders in the law of sex discrimination, as well as in legal ethics and the legal profession. It would be hard to think of a gender law scholar whose work was both so widely cited and so broad in scope. Among the many subjects she tackled were bias in the legal profession, the history of the legal profession, glass ceiling issues, structural and unconscious bias, sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination, women in leadership, bias in courtrooms, gender discrimination in education, and appearance discrimination. And in recent years, she had grappled with broader questions about people and society in which we live, writing books about leadership, adultery, character, cheating, and ambition.
»This Harvard-incubated Body Says It s Trying to Use Muslim Women s Agency in India’s Growth Story
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This Harvard-incubated Body Says It s Trying to Use Muslim Women s Agency in India’s Growth Story
Training workshop on Muslim women leadership program by Joan Moon and by Huma Qureshi.
The Led By Foundation avowedly aims to create a community of Indian Muslim women who have the professional skillset to conquer their career goals while being supported by experts with shared backgrounds
FOLLOW US ON: There is a lack of awareness about the way Indian Muslim women exercise their agency. There is unity in diversity on papers but at the workplaces the acute absence of Muslim women is disturbing.
women s rights, i had worked closely with big constitutional law scholar, ran the stanford law review where we wrote articles about gender what yola. but she knew everything there was to know about gender law and equity, every case, every brief, every footnote. but you know, this was a really exciting, exciting case involving whether or not virginia military institute could continue to close its doors to women. and she looked to one of justice o connor s opinions to help clarify the standard for gender classification. and used the words exceedingly persuasive justification. if you want to bar your doors to women, you have to have an extremely pervasive justification to do so, otherwise you open your doors. and we had the great good fortune to go back together 20 years after the decision which was a very moving experience to see these, you know, young