Growing diversity and emergent change: Gender and ethnicity in the legal profession

Calling for Change: Women, Law, and the Legal Profession

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 203-236

  Kay, Fiona M ^a   Masuch, Cristi ^b   Curry, Paula ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

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