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- ↑ Delistraty, Cody (30 July 2014). "Who Wins in the Name Game?". The Atlantic . Retrieved 19 October 2018.
- ↑ Weiss, Debra (3 September 2009). "Female Lawyers with Masculine Names May Have a Better Shot at Judgeships". ABA Journal . Retrieved 19 October 2018.
- ↑ Coffey, Bentley; McLaughlin, Patrick (4 August 2009). "Do Masculine Names Help Female Lawyers Become Judges? Evidence from South Carolina". American Law and Economics Review . 11 (1): 112–133. doi:10.1093/aler/ahp008.
- ↑ "Female lawyers with male names 'more successful'". The Telegraph . 2 November 2009. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
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