How many female professors (or classes from female professors) have you had in law school? Forum

[jrass]

It would be interesting to see if geography impacts these #'s at all (i.e. whether there's more equal representation in cities than there is in less populated areas or vice versa). There could also be a self selection impact in play.

[Goldie]

6/17

[TheSpanishMain]

6/14 I think.

[OfThriceandTen]

4/23, didn't count clinic (male prof, 1 male staff attorney and 1 female staff attorney)

[hdunlop]

timely: http://www.theonion.com/americanvoices/ ... ents-52242

[Person1111]

2/23 unique professors. also had two black male professors (though one was for TAW and our small group leader was a white man, but i'm being generous) and one indian male professor. 18/23 were white guys.

[BVest]

36 classes

I can't speak for nony, but my 37 was number of profs (and I didn't eliminate duplicates). But that was over 33 classes (about 2.67 hours per class)

[A. Nony Mouse]

36 classes

I think it's actually 34 - I think I accidentally counted some of the credits for LR or the like. Basically I'm fried right now and I can't get the same number twice, but it's something in that ball park (is anyone really shocked that I loaded up on classes? But a chunk of them were only 2 credits).

[LeDique]

36 classes

I think it might be a couple less - I think I accidentally counted some of the credits for LR or the like. Basically I'm fried right now and I can't get the same number twice, but it's something in that ball park (is anyone really shocked that I loaded up on classes? But a chunk of them were only 2 credits).

I counted 36 total and knocked off 6 to estimate for this. Since by my class, all of those except 1 were assigned to white men, it was easy math.

[bk1]

8/34

[ballouttacontrol]

Only in clinic/lrw type classes. I strongly prefer men to girl teachers/bosses

[A. Nony Mouse]

Only in clinic/lrw type classes. I strongly prefer men to girl teachers/bosses

You get that admitting this is not a good look, right? Why are women profs/bosses worse than boys?

[ballouttacontrol]

Only in clinic/lrw type classes. I strongly prefer men to girl teachers/bosses

You get that admitting this is not a good look, right? Why are women profs/bosses worse than boys?

meh I guess. but I'm def not alone, and I'm sure there's ppl that feel they prefer the opposite. if you're gonna judge me for acknowledging the realities I probably wouldn't have liked you very much anyways. in my experience girls tend to care more about organization, more focused on the details, stuff like that. I'm not good at that kinda stuff and can really up the stress levels so I do my best to avoid it where I can. In school, as opposed to a job, the easier I could coast on through the better.

[A. Nony Mouse]

Oh, so you don't like women bosses/profs because they actually require you to be on top of your shit and do some work, and the boys don't? This is even better than I thought.

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[jrass]

I find women, on average, tend to be better at spotting bullshit, and without bullshit I'm just a pile of gibberish.

[ballouttacontrol]

Oh, so you don't like women bosses/profs because they actually require you to be on top of your shit and do some work, and the boys don't? This is even better than I thought.

yea not too far off. I didn't say I don't like them at a personal level. just in school, especially after my 1st semester of LS which basically assured I wasn't gonna get honors at my school, I much preferred to take classes that were chill and I could devote myself to as much or as little as I felt like without getting hassled for checking out. what's wrong with that? Not everyone enjoys school, and I took every class offered that was relevant to my practice in about 1 semester

bosses is a different story and I'm not sure which I prefer yet. I've witnessed the same tendencies in my girl bosses but when I care a lot more about excelling I'm not sure that a little more hands-on-ness bothers me as much

also 180 for referring to female professors of law as 'girl teachers'

we're getting flamed good today

why you mad tho? I've always been straightforward in my posts here and just as easily could have posted anon. some people in this thread clearly prefer to take classes taught by girls

PC police pls go

[A. Nony Mouse]

You sound kinda like a tool when you call women who have BAs, JDs, probably other advanced degrees, and work experience "girls," though.

(I also think you're stereotyping madly based on how you expect women v. men to act, but you do you I guess?)

[jrass]

You sound kinda like a tool when you call women who have BAs, JDs, probably other advanced degrees, and work experience "girls," though.

(I also think you're stereotyping madly based on how you expect women v. men to act, but you do you I guess?)

There are neurological differences between the genders. One isn't better than the other, but natural selection favored a few things more in women than it did in men, and vice versa. That said, I doubt these differences would impact how somebody teaches a law school class, and law professors are already wired differently than non-law professors.

[DrRighteous]

You sound kinda like a tool when you call women who have BAs, JDs, probably other advanced degrees, and work experience "girls," though.

(I also think you're stereotyping madly based on how you expect women v. men to act, but you do you I guess?)

There are neurological differences between the genders. One isn't better than the other, but natural selection favored a few things more in women than it did in men, and vice versa. That said, I doubt these differences would impact how somebody teaches a law school class, and law professors are already wired differently than non-law professors.

This is where I jump in, scream NEUROPLASTICITY!, then jump out again, right?

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[jrass]

You sound kinda like a tool when you call women who have BAs, JDs, probably other advanced degrees, and work experience "girls," though.

(I also think you're stereotyping madly based on how you expect women v. men to act, but you do you I guess?)

There are neurological differences between the genders. One isn't better than the other, but natural selection favored a few things more in women than it did in men, and vice versa. That said, I doubt these differences would impact how somebody teaches a law school class, and law professors are already wired differently than non-law professors.

This is where I jump in, scream NEUROPLASTICITY!, then jump out again, right?

I would say the fallacy of natural selection as applied to neurology is it tends to overlook the fact that someone better at A is likely to also be better at B. For example, females perform slightly better on the SAT verbal, and men perform slightly better on the SAT math. However, as between any two people, the one who performs better on either one is also more than 50% likely to perform better on the other.

[DrRighteous]

You sound kinda like a tool when you call women who have BAs, JDs, probably other advanced degrees, and work experience "girls," though.

(I also think you're stereotyping madly based on how you expect women v. men to act, but you do you I guess?)

There are neurological differences between the genders. One isn't better than the other, but natural selection favored a few things more in women than it did in men, and vice versa. That said, I doubt these differences would impact how somebody teaches a law school class, and law professors are already wired differently than non-law professors.

This is where I jump in, scream NEUROPLASTICITY!, then jump out again, right?

I would say the fallacy of natural selection as applied to neurology is it tends to overlook the fact that someone better at A is likely to also be better at B. For example, females perform slightly better on the SAT verbal, and men perform slightly better on the SAT math. However, as between any two people, the one who performs better on either one is also more than 50% likely to perform better on the other.

What I mean is that it is important not to confound neurological differences in adulthood with genetic differences at birth, especially not wrt sex differences. Socialization profoundly influences the brain itself, and a lot of sex differences we see in adulthood are simply not present very early in life. It is super fascinating.

[xael]

Do I really need to ask social Darwinists to get out of one of my threads? Really?

Please don't turn this into a 10-page, stereotype-reinforcing, othering "conversation" about perceived neurological differences or abilities between the genders. Everyone except DrRighteous can shut the fuck up about it.