Blog 24

Maria is a cute and tiny 24 year old with now dyed brown hair and some plastic surgery. She was in a sorority and looks like a cheerleader but she is a law student at University of Arizona. She comes from a family of lawyers and that is all she has wanted to become since a child. She has to be one of the most well read people I have met and her less then serious looks throw people off when she opens her mouth to speak. She dyed her natural blonde hair brown before her first year in law school because she thought it reflected her personality better and would make her look more serious.

Maria had to deal with a lot of issues her first year, she was home sick for one and she was dealing with several male professors. She was an English major at Arizona State University and had more female professors then men. Dealing with mostly men was new to her and she was no longer a big fish in a small pond. She experienced some sexism with other students and professors but that wasn’t really what bothered her. She was surprised that she didn’t have many other females in classes and the women that were there were very competitive and had no real sense of camaraderie. Through the years she’s been there she noticed the women in her classes have settled more and are more friendly. It seems that being a female in this field carries the burden of having to watch your back and having to figure out what works for you because of your gender and you need to figure it out fast. The levels of stress Maria deals with are outrageous and I have read articles that alcoholism and depression runs rampant in people in the law profession. Women, I believe have it worse because they have to deal with stresses of their job trying to break ground and get taken seriously as well as the normal issues of the job then they have family stresses like children and husbands. The article I attached is about female lawyers and the stresses they have to handle in daily life, how it affects them emotionally and how it affects their relationships with their families.

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article6732234.ece