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--“It-gives-me ‘better scope
nd: more variety,” ‘she says”

- with enthusiasm, “so something
mo I believe very strongly i in.” |

a ~ Rewer: than half a dozen
oe judges of all levels of courts

' in B.C. are women, ‘and. of ©

“these only one ‘is. on’ the.

a > Supreme Court, and even'so,

ithe representation of women
~. in tthe, legal. profession is
much Hines favorable than it

- “The ‘weed to educate a |
woman to-be financially
secure is profound.”

What is it like working i ina’
male-dominated profession
only recently and grudgingly
open‘to women?

“Well, the discrimination
never ends. Tt’s a daily thing
and it’s never a deliberate

-You learn: to channel: your

have more value.”

_ about it — they don’t come

eontinual discrimination that

_ society and business and the.
Professions

mete — out . to
women.”

She continues“ ve always
been. conscious- of it.

‘Sometimes. ‘you get. a little

more enraged. than at others,
but it’s .a .waste of energy. |

energies © ‘where - they will |

. Judge. Morrison
refused positions very.
bluntly when she articled.
“We don’t hire women,’ * she
was told. .

- Today, she says, there are

sstill firms that discriminate, —

only they- are .a lot cuter.

right out and say it. “They’ve
got: other’ and better ex-
cuses..”

“The worst thing you can
“do about. any of these
matters,’’ she _ firmly
maintains, “is lose your
sense of humor, because if
you do then you lose your
perspective.”

Her sense of humour,
often wry, sometimes biting,
is one of\ the qualities im-
mediately obvious. about
Judge. Morrison. Her
conversation is punctuated
with anecdote and real
amusement. _

There are times, however, -

when being a woman in the

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; everyone’ s

“about.”

was

legal profession can. be an

. advantage. In court, par-

ticularly in jury work, as a
woman Jawyer you. have

tention. “Of course,”

adds smiling, : “you'd better
_know. what you re _ talking

-“Je’s a bad prison system.”

Perhaps a third of law
school students today are
women, compared with
approximately five per cent
10 years ago, and Judge

orrison’s advice | to women
interested in getting a law
degree i is simple and girect:

~ “Do it”.

“The need to educate a

woman to be financially
secure is profound — you
never know what is down the
road for you — and there is

no greater financial security.

than a law degree.”

But can a woman combine
Marriage, and perhaps a
family, with the respon-
sibility and commitment of a
legal career? Judge Morrison
answers:

“I haven't come across the
man who could put up with
me on a full-time basis, I
guess, but I’ve always been
quite willing to combine
both or try both. I think
there are certain years
where you have to give more

priority to one than the
other. You have to be
flexible.”

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“thing —_ simply the. ‘dailyay

One of the real drawbacks

of the job, says Judge

Morrison, is the fact thatyou.
are sitting all the time. And
while relaxing after a day of

she— intense concentration and-

pressure with a good book "
may'be effective in terms of
escapism, it doesn’t involve a
whole lot’ of physical |

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* and she didn’t feel like beitig
on duty on the chairlift, so
she waffled, “Oh, I work in
the court system”.

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In her own words: “People

-would recoil as if I were

holding a live cobra.”

“People would recoil as if I
were holding a live cobra.”

She used to be very hurt
by these reactions until, “I
realized that those people

' who reacted in that way had

a lot more problems than I
did”.

And as a_ judge, the
reaction is, if anything more
pronounced. Recently while
riding the chairlift at
Whistler, she was asked,
“What do you do for a
living?” The sun was shining

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