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OT. Sandra Day O’Connor - lex24 - 12-01-2023

A truly incredible woman.  Couldn’t get a job as a lawyer at first despite  graduating third from Stanford Law School.  Without getting political, I will say imo she has never gotten the credit she deserves for advancing the cause of women in the law.  I graduated from Santa Clara Law School in ‘85.  It was the first graduating class that was 50% women. Today, women are a majority of graduates at elite law schools (of which S. Clara is not one!). Justice O’Connor was a trailblazer. 


May she rest in peace.

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RE: OT. Sandra Day O’Connor - TrumpCard - 12-01-2023

(12-01-2023, 07:28 PM)lex24 Wrote:  A truly incredible woman.  Couldn’t get a job as a lawyer at first despite  graduating third from Stanford Law School.  Without getting political, I will say imo she has never gotten the credit she deserves for advancing the cause of women in the law.  I graduated from Santa Clara Law School in ‘85.  It was the first graduating class that was 50% women. Today, women are a majority of graduates at elite law schools (of which S. Clara is not one!). Justice O’Connor was a trailblazer. 


May she rest in peace.

Taking nothing away from SDO, who of course was a trail blazer, it's notable that women now significantly outnumber men in college enrollment, med school enrollment, and law school enrollment.  Women also graduate college at much higher rates than men (and if I had data on law/med school graduation rates, I suspect it would show something similar).  Men will continue to do well in certain fields, but the gender inequality gap is not done narrowing.  I've read various attempts to explain the phenomenon, and I don't know which causes predominate, but as a girl dad, I couldn't be happier about the overall trend.

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RE: OT. Sandra Day O’Connor - 82lsju - 12-01-2023

she was the commencement speaker for my class ('82) and also came to our 25th reunion (also her 55th law school reunion) with Dean Fred.

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RE: OT. Sandra Day O’Connor - cardcrimson - 12-01-2023

Bless her and her family. Tough for them. Great woman.

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RE: OT. Sandra Day O’Connor - Mick - 12-02-2023

(12-01-2023, 07:28 PM)lex24 Wrote:  A truly incredible woman.  Couldn’t get a job as a lawyer at first despite  graduating third from Stanford Law School.  Without getting political, I will say imo she has never gotten the credit she deserves for advancing the cause of women in the law.  I graduated from Santa Clara Law School in ‘85.  It was the first graduating class that was 50% women. Today, women are a majority of graduates at elite law schools (of which S. Clara is not one!). Justice O’Connor was a trailblazer. 


May she rest in peace.

SCU's not an elite law school, but their current demographic profile is 60% women.

https://law.scu.edu/admissions/2023-class-profile/

I saw the announcement of Judge O'Connor's passing.  Extraordinary woman. represented Stanford well.

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