GLASS CEILING AND THE LATIN AMERICAN LAW FIRMS
This paper intends to analyze why female lawyers are underrepresented at the top level positions of the big Latin American law firms, by studying the different social-economic theories that could explain this phenomenon. The “human capital theory” and the “gender-role socialization theory” are invok...
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Universidade de São Paulo
2009-06-01
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| author | Maria Carla Fontana Gaspar Coronel |
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| description | This paper intends to analyze why female lawyers are underrepresented at the top level positions of the big Latin American law firms, by studying the different social-economic theories that could explain this phenomenon. The “human capital theory” and the “gender-role socialization theory” are invoked in the present work with a view to understand the actual situation of law firm’s environment. Besides that, concepts of segregation, discrimination, glass ceiling effect and
sex stereotypes are also developed and applied to the case object of the present study. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1d781da332ac4a36a16dffc2698e3f632022-12-22T00:14:52ZengUniversidade de São PauloCadernos Prolam/USP1676-62882009-06-0181410.11606/issn.1676-6288.prolam.2009.82332GLASS CEILING AND THE LATIN AMERICAN LAW FIRMSMaria Carla Fontana Gaspar Coronel0Programa Interunidades em Integração da América Latina. Universidade de São Paulo.This paper intends to analyze why female lawyers are underrepresented at the top level positions of the big Latin American law firms, by studying the different social-economic theories that could explain this phenomenon. The “human capital theory” and the “gender-role socialization theory” are invoked in the present work with a view to understand the actual situation of law firm’s environment. Besides that, concepts of segregation, discrimination, glass ceiling effect and sex stereotypes are also developed and applied to the case object of the present study.http://www.revistas.usp.br/prolam/article/view/82332 |
| spellingShingle | Maria Carla Fontana Gaspar Coronel GLASS CEILING AND THE LATIN AMERICAN LAW FIRMS Cadernos Prolam/USP |
| title | GLASS CEILING AND THE LATIN AMERICAN LAW FIRMS |
| title_full | GLASS CEILING AND THE LATIN AMERICAN LAW FIRMS |
| title_fullStr | GLASS CEILING AND THE LATIN AMERICAN LAW FIRMS |
| title_full_unstemmed | GLASS CEILING AND THE LATIN AMERICAN LAW FIRMS |
| title_short | GLASS CEILING AND THE LATIN AMERICAN LAW FIRMS |
| title_sort | glass ceiling and the latin american law firms |
| url | http://www.revistas.usp.br/prolam/article/view/82332 |
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