President’s Page, ” We’ve Come a Long Way, But We’re Not There Yet”

By Paula H. Holderman

Women lawyers truly have come a long way since the days of Myra Bradwell. But there’s unfinished business even in 2013.

Many of us remember the vintage 1968 Virginia Slims cigarette advertisement that declared “You’ve come a long way, baby!” Sadly, the provocative tagline specifically referenced women having achieved the freedom to smoke their own brand of cigarettes which we’ve since determined was not such a healthy milestone – also interesting to note the then apparently acceptable use of the “baby” moniker to generally refer to women.

(Illinois Bar Journal. October 2013• Volume 101 • Number 10 • Page 496)

http://www.isba.org/ibj/2013/10/wevecomealongwaybutwerenotthereyet

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