Seeking Yoda: Mentoring Women Legal Academics

Mentoring for Women Academics: a Review of the Literature and Proposition for Future Research

We aim to review literature on mentoring in academia, with a focus on women at an early stage of their academic career: mentoring has been recognised as an important instrument to foster careers and address the gender imbalance in science. However, while mentoring initiatives for women academics are flourishing, most of these experiences are not discussed in scholarly literature: this does not ...

Ascertainment of intimate partner violence in women seeking legal protection.

BACKGROUND Brief questions are necessary for identification of women seeking emergency professional services for intimate partner violence (IPV), and for initiating dialogue with women presenting for care who have previously reported abuse. We compare three questions that inquire about physical and psychological abuse to the Conflict Tactics Scale, version 2 (CTS-2) in a cohort of women seeking...

Selected Books on Mentoring Women

Legal knowledge, needs, and assistance seeking among HIV positive and negative women in Umlazi, South Africa

BACKGROUND The rights of women and people living with HIV (PLHIV) are protected under South African law, yet there is a gap in the application of these laws. While there are numerous systemic and social barriers to women's and PLHIV's exercise of their legal rights and rights to access social services, there has been little effort to document these barriers as well as legal needs and knowledge ...

Correlates for legal help-seeking: contextual factors for battered women in shelter.

Legal redress can play a critical role in interrupting the pattern of domination and control inherent in intimate partner violence (IPV), yet it remains an infrequent strategy among battered women. The current study employed a contextual framework for investigating the correlates for engagement in the criminal justice system for a sample of 227 sheltered battered women. Results indicated that i...