UNIT D: BLOG 26

BLOG 26: Gendered Organization

The law is still a genderized organization. The number of females in law although have been rising, they are still only making up about one third of the profession. Women think and other men such as men of an older age because we still have a generation gap in ideas think that women are not have the same qualifications or they have to work even harder then males to prove themselves to be the same at their job. Males in the law still have the dominance. Women are having to fight for power even if they are in charge of a certain case. Such as when a women in Ch. 4 talks about how she was working with a male co-worker on a case and had to fight for power. Even though she was the one talking and giving all the information their client was not looking at her and giving her the power. This is a power play event. When someone looks at you they give you power, but if they do not make eye contact they do not give you any power and do not see you as in charge.

In our society because we do not live in a perfect world we still see this gender bias because of how people think and because of our gender gaps and are genderized organizations in which we live in. In this case some times when female lawyers need men to help back their causes and cases. They have to do this because of genderized ideas and organizations. Male Backing is when Men have to help or back women in their ideas and theory for a certain case, presentation, event, or idea. The males are not the ones that specifically came up with the idea, but they are dratted into the presentation or the pitch of this idea to help sell it to genderized organizations or people to make the point reach these people. Women could say the same exact thing as the male that they draft, but depending on who is listening they will not heard it the same because of who it is coming from.

An example of this is from the book in Chapter 4 from the example of a female partner in Washington D.C. She was working on a case and "drafted" or enlisted a man onto her counsel to help reinforce her ideals of the case. She has to do this because of generized organizations and thinking. She could say the same exact thing as the male, but people will take it differently based on who they are and how they think. She states "We do not live in a gender neutral society." She knows that these bias exist, does her "risk management", think about how she wants to present it, how she needs to present the case based on the organization and people, and figures out the best route. Our society is still working toward equality and she has to do this because we are just not all the way there yet.