Quiet Rebels

"It's a girl!" the Ontario press announced, as Canada's first woman lawyer was called to the Ontario bar in February 1897.Quiet Rebelsexplores experiences of exclusion among the few women lawyers for the next six decades, and how their experiences continue to shape gender issues in the contemporary legal profession.
Mary Jane Mossman tells the stories of all 187 Ontario women lawyers called to the bar from 1897 to 1957, revealing the legal profession's gendered patterns. Comprising a small handful of studentsor even a single studentat the Law School, women were often ignored, and they faced discrimination in obtaining articling positions and legal employment. Most were Protestant, white, and middle-class, and a minority of Jewish, Catholic, Black, and immigrant women lawyers faced even greater challenges. The book also explores some changes, as well as continuities, for the much larger numbers of Ontario women lawyers in recent decades.
This longitudinal study of women lawyers' gendered experiences in the profession during six decades of social, economic, and political change in early twentieth-century Ontario identifies factors that createdor foreclosed onwomen lawyers' professional success. The book's final section explores how some current women lawyers, despite their increased numbers, must remain "quiet rebels" to succeed.

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