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Female Issues: Leslie Crocker Snyder

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“Female Issues” From doing something as simple as completing law school, to becoming a world renowned judge Leslie Crocker Snyder did it all. In her Autobiography 25 TO LIFE THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH she shows how she got to becoming a supreme court judge, explaining what she went through in cases, home life, and prejudice towards women. She said at the beginning of the book during her first years as a prosecutor “I thought I was doing my job properly and was fitting into the office well...I had thought there were no “female issues” with me.”(Synder25) As it turned out the office was against her for being a female because of an old female worker who couldn’t handle the stress and got demoted to the indictment …show more content…

She got pregnant and had a child but there wasn’t any provision for maternity leave in her office. She took a month off, then arranged it so she would only work 3 days a week for the rest of the summer. Soon after she had her child it was deemed appropriate to have a 3 month maternity leave. She didn’t take advantage of the new policy and just kept on doing what she did. She was also introduced to a world of office prejudice from one of her first bosses who said “I was extremely skeptical about you; I didn’t think you should be hired and I didn’t want you in my bureau, because you’re a woman and I didn’t think you could handle our work.” Then straight after he said this he explained how he was wrong and how amazing she was. This still shows even though he was wrong about her, his first impressions were all about her sex and it took him months to overcome that. She was also told she had “good chemistry” with young men, which she took as a complement as it helped her in cases. Even though in reality it was probably an insult to her being a woman, it worked out well for her in the long run to a point she opened the sex crimes bureau and gave influence to many changes in the sex crime laws. She also opened her own law firm in which she had some issues with just not being a good bussiness woman but also people thinking she wouldn’t be good at it as a

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