Law Students

Sotomayor & the Belizean Grove: Are We Really Ready to Move Beyond Exclusivity?

By jessie

Over the weekend, Judge Sotomayor resigned her membership in the Belizean Grove in anticipation of her Senate confirmation hearings. Ever since I heard the news, I've been trying to decide what I think about her membership and the negative reaction to it. On the one hand, I'm all for camping, networking, and new age old girls clubs. On the other hand, I'm not convinced that only girls clubs are more effective networking tools for professional women than gender-nuetral associations. Plus there's a legitimate aversion among many women to gender distinction of any kind. 

This is hardly idle daydreaming, after all Ms. JD, while not as exclusive as the Grove, is in part organized around the principle that women can and should be helping other women. Though we are an inclusive forum open to all political, personal and profesisonal viewpoints, inherently we have highlighted, albeit in an attempt to nuetralize, the role gender plays in the profession.

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Full post as published by Ms. JD on June 19, 2009 (boomark / email).