She is a squeeze!” smirks a lawyer friend as a female colleague passes by. Many such terms exist; a woman is Ms OO if she is well endowed or ‘flat’ if she is not. She is ‘easy’, or she is a ‘tight-ass’. There are score charts for breasts, legs and other ‘assets’. If you are a mere body in your office, when can you be a lawyer?
The casual sexism of the legal world goes unchallenged, even unnoticed, as ‘we are all modern here’. Endless stories emerge when women confide in each other: A corporate lawyer friend went out for an office meal, and while watching a football game on a big screen, a senior partner turned to her and said, ‘Which of these players would you sh*g?”