Women Lawyers for Social Causes: Professional Careers and Legal Development in Thailand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Munger
Keyword(s):  
Legal Development ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Women Lawyers ◽  
Social Causes

Women Lawyers for Social Causes: Professional Careers and Legal Development in Thailand

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-132
Author(s):  
Frank W. Munger ◽  
Peerawich Thoviriyavej ◽  
Vorapitchaya Rabiablok
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Political Development ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Women Lawyers ◽  
Social Cause ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Social Causes

Women lawyers are increasing seen among the leading legal defenders of human rights and social movements in Thailand. Increasing visibility is partly a result of news coverage and social media, but women lawyers activism has far older roots. In this article, we examine two related processes of change that contribute to women’s emergence as leading social cause practitioners. First, we discuss the relationship between Thailand’s legal system and its social and political development since the end of the nineteenth century. Second, we employ career narratives of three women lawyers with innovative practices for social causes as a lens through which to examine how lawyers transform available resources into an identity, law practice, and law. We discuss not only the role of prior generations of women lawyers, connections between influential elites and social cause lawyers, and the founding of a few key organizations within the NGO community, but also the role of the women as architects of their own careers. We conclude that they have become successful by aligning their practices with emerging social movements and progressive bureaucrats, unexpectedly creating professional identities with somewhat different relationships to the rule of law.

Women Lawyers: The Employment Status of Their Mothers and the Role Models They Select

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33
Author(s):  
Faye Dambrot ◽  
Barbara Vassel
Keyword(s):  
Role Models ◽  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Law School ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Women Lawyers ◽  
Professional Mothers ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
To Come

This study investigated the employment status of the mothers and the role models selected by 154 women lawyers who had graduated from law school at different periods of time between 1920 and 1979. Recent women graduates of law school with fewer years of practice tend to come from traditional families with a homemaker mother while lawyers with professional mothers graduated from law school at an earlier point in time and had completed more years of practice. Lawyers from homemaker mothers and nonprofessional fathers did not usually select their parents as role models. The results are discussed and related to earlier research conclusions on the effect of maternal employment on daughters' career aspirations and achievements and to recent trends regarding the increased participation of women in professional careers.

Women Lawyers and Governance in the Progressive Era

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Nackenoff ◽  
Kathleen Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
Women Lawyers

Family Livelihood, Social Class and Mothers’ Self-cognition: The Transformation of “Mothering” in Japanese Colonial Taiwan (1895–1945)

2020 ◽  
pp. 036319902094573
Author(s):  
Yujen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Household Tasks ◽  
New Women ◽  
Biological Mothers ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Taiwanese Women ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Japanese Colonial ◽  
Physical Care

Based on oral histories and diaries of women who lived in the Japanese colonial period, this article analyzes the role and transformation of “mothering” in Taiwan, examining how the Han Chinese patriarchal society in Taiwan responded to colonialization and modernization in the early twentieth century. It reveals that most Taiwanese women at that time married in their teens and began to take on the tasks of mothers before the age of twenty. Difference in social class served as a key element affecting mothering practices. Rural and lower-class mothers had no choice but to prioritize productive labor over physical childcare; women of the traditional upper class could afford nannies; the emerging group of “new women” hired lower-class women to help with household tasks and childcare while they developed their professional careers. In addition to the physical care of children, Taiwanese mothers put great emphasis on the education and future development of children, especially sons. However, as the custom of “daughters-in-law-to-be” was quite common, from an early age many girls faced only their “mothers-in-law-to-be” instead of their biological mothers. “Mothering” was thus absent in these women’s lives, complicating the meaning of “motherhood.”

scholarly journals Agenda-setting and Public Policy in Private Foundations

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Kate Williamson ◽  
Belinda Luke
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Philanthropic Foundations ◽  
Policy Influence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Foundations ◽  
Social Causes ◽  
The U.S

AbstractThis paper examines advocacy, agenda-setting and the public policy focus of private philanthropic foundations in Australia. While concerns have been raised regarding advocacy and public policy influence of foundations in countries such as the U.S., less is understood on this issue in other contexts. Interviews were conducted with 11 managers and trustees of 10 Private Ancillary Funds (PAFs) in late 2014. Analysis of publicly available data on the participating PAFs was then undertaken comparing PAF information available at the time of the interviews with that available approximately five years later, to consider any changes in the public communication of their agendas. Findings reveal PAFs’ agendas were largely consistent with public policy but may vary in the approaches to address social causes. Further, a preference for privacy indicates the PAF sector may be characterised as ‘quiet philanthropy’ rather than having a visible public presence. As such, PAFs’ advocacy focused on promoting philanthropy, rather than altering or influencing public policy. Our main contention is that the conceptions of advocacy in structured philanthropy are dominated by the obvious, the outliers and the noisy. Our contribution to the philanthropic literature is a more nuanced and broader discussion of how advocacy and agenda-setting occurs and is understood in the mainstream.

Beginning teachers in early childhood education: A critical discourse analysis of policies in Aotearoa New Zealand and the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 147821032110016
Author(s):  
Jessica Cira Rubin ◽  
Susan Tily
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Professional Careers ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Teachers Experiences ◽  
Politics And Culture ◽  
Early Phases

The early phases of teachers’ professional careers are multi-layered and informed by many factors, including teachers’ values, their own experiences in schools, and the nested contexts of their professional employment. While in teachers’ everyday lives government policies sometimes operate beneath the surface rather than overtly, these policies influence many teachers’ experiences, contributing significantly to what critical discourse analysis scholars call the ‘issue’ of teachers’ available subjectivities being influenced by prevailing ideologies as they are newly entering the profession. In this analysis, we activate critical discourse analysis in order to offer new understandings about policies and contexts associated with new teachers entering the profession. Our analysis is significant in its co-consideration of policies from contexts that we see as experiencing the influence of neoliberal ideologies in different ways. As critical discourse analysis is transdisciplinary, it also offers chances to transcend boundaries of politics and culture to inquire into social wrongs as we actually experience them in a world that is globally connected and globally influenced. The significance of this analysis, then, lies with the continued questioning we hope that it, and others like it, make possible.

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