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Record W206020881

Gender and the Profession: The No-Problem Problem

2002· article· en· W206020881 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Deborah L. Rhode

Bibliographic record

VenueeYLS (Yale Law School) · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal Systems and Judicial Processes
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLegal professionHonorPleasureQuarter (Canadian coin)LawRepresentation (politics)LesbianSociologyPolitical scienceGender studiesPsychologyHistory
DOInot available

Abstract

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It is a great honor and pleasure to have this opportunity among so many friends to discuss issues that have become increasingly central to our profession. It is a testament to our partial progress towards gender equality that Conference organizers believed that these issues were sufficiently important to showcase in a keynote address. Such topics rarely received even a walk-on role when I entered the profession. I graduated from law school in the late 1970s without having a single course by or about women. There were no women’s law associations, and I saw no women partners when I was interviewing for jobs. What is most striking to me now is how little of it was striking to me then. Most of us did not perceive the absence of women or women’s issues as a problem. It was just how law, and life, were. Today, the legal landscape has been transformed. But we still have a version of what I have called the “‘no problem’ problem.” Women’s increasing representation and visibility in the profession is taken as evidence that “the woman problem” has been solved. A widespread assumption is that barriers have been coming down, women have been moving up, and it is only a matter of time before full equality becomes an accomplished fact. In a recent survey by the ABA Journal, only a quarter of female lawyers and three percent of male lawyers thought that

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.025
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.040
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.025
Threshold uncertainty score0.130

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0250.040
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0160.058
Scholarly communication0.0100.023
Open science0.0030.011
Research integrity0.0140.018
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0170.003

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.272
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations12
Published2002
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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