Teaching Law As If Women Really Mattered, or, What About the Washrooms?

This paper is an invitation to reflect on gender and legal education. It is divided into three parts. In the first part, Christine Boyle surveys the educational literature on the "hidden curriculum" and asks whether or not sexual inequality is being taught in law schools. In the second part, she provides some information about the initiatives that are being taken at Dalhousie Law School to include women's perspectives and feminist analysis in the curriculum. In the last part, she identifies some of the factors which cause fear and inhibit such initiatives. She concludes that law professors must confront the possibility that they are complicitous in reproducing inequality and must reflect on the values that are implicit and unconsciously taught in methodology and in institutional structures and decisions. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]