Women's experience in the legal profession
“Often clients look for a male criminal lawyer and don’t even return to women.” Women's experience in the legal profession On November 14, 1900, the French Senate allowed women to practice as lawyers. The first woman to take the lawyer's oath in France was Olga Petit, a native of the Russian Empire. "First Section" tells the story of women in the legal profession in the Russian Empire, and the prejudices that advocates face today.