Legal Research

It's interesting, and somewhat cheering,  to read that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is having to defend her membership in an all-female networking club.  I was recently re-reading Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, and it begins by identifying the truth that women have historically been defined as the "other" ( and implicitly inferior) in relation to men.  Now it seems that men are chafing at being excluded from a club composed of powerful women - men feel excluded, discriminated against because of their sex.  What a heartening sign of women being regarded, finally, as card-carrrying human beings.