In You Can’t Change What You Can’t See, the ABA’s comprehensive report on gender bias, the main finding is that gender & racial bias continues to be prevalent in the legal community. Despite all the efforts, we have not made much progress… and now we’re headed into a non-binary future.
In this CLE course, Amy Allemann covers four prevalent patterns of gender bias and details specific examples & effects of gender bias that lawyers experience. Amy then asks the question, if we have a hard enough time addressing gender bias in the legal profession now, what happens when we live in a world with no gender? She specifically discusses prove-it-again bias, tightrope bias, the maternal wall bias, the tug-a-war bias, interruption rates of female supreme court justices, parental leave, hiring & assignments, ethical rules regarding gender bias, gender identity, sexual orientation, what it means to be non-binary and practical takeaways.
Amy Elizabeth Allemann has been an active member of the California State Bar and a practicing attorney for over 15 years. Currently, Ms. Allemann specializes in complex civil litigation, business litigation and personal injury matters.