Category: Gender

I was struck by President Obama's appointment of Judge Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Justice this morning. In choosing her,...

Leading Pacific North-West mediator, Susan Hammer of Portland, Oregon was interviewed by Doug Noll on his internet radio show recently...

Although I am indisputably a "woman lawyer," I have never thought of myself in those terms.  I'm a lawyer.  And I'm a...

O.K., times are tough.  And it takes no small amount of courage to face the financial disaster that credit cards...

(and, yes, I am not only old enough to remember the "Second Wave" Women's Movement, I took a quite serious role...

Video below is part I of an interview on negotiation challenges, strategies and tactics for women with Vicki Flaugher, founder...

C.C. Holland, writing for Legal Technology laments the lack of strong female voices among legal bloggers and asks, “Where Are...

Last week fellow mediator, blogger and rabble-rouser Victoria Pynchon published a post with a confrontational title: “Dispute Resolution by Old...

An advertisement for one of the big ADR firms appears regularly in the weekly newspaper for lawyers distributed here in...

I didn't realize until I got onto the plane out of Seattle that Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever -- our...

Thanks to the Association of Conciliation Courts (www.afccnet.org) for permission to republish this important report.Introduction Although domestic violence is commonly...

Five years ago Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever published Women Don’t Ask, a book that ripped the lid off of...

Why diversity?  Uh . . . . because that's how life successfully evolved on planet earth? Now a new study...

What difference does gender make in negotiation? Although both men and women in business strive to be leaders at the...

From the blog Mediation Marketing TipsLarry Bodine, a legal marketer, has a good article about what law firms can do...

From Stephanie West Allen's blog on Neuroscience and conflict resolution . Gender differences can play a part in conflict—both the...

In California, ethnic minorities constitute the majority of California's population, work force and consumer markets. Leading companies have policies of...

This article was first published by the Missouri Lawyers Weekly (August, 2001) In my $280 Ferragamo pumps with the 2...

Nearly ten years ago when Marlene first met Liz, their future as a couple seemed so bright. They shared a...

As a mediator, when I consider this question, I come up with the obvious answer. It is the one that...

Gender affects and indeed permeates, conflict dynamics at the societal and individual level. Understanding the role of gender in conflict...