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Are women instinctively more nurturing? - Curiosity
I went to a law school with more than 50% female-- the University of Minnesota Law School (Class of 1989)-- and the women were often much more driven than the men. In fact, of the classes I remember (1987, 1988, 1989, 1990) at least half of them had a woman valedictorian. I also attended BYU Law School for about 10 days back in 1982 and there were only two women that I remember in the entire Class of 1985 student body. One was a librarian trying to become a Law Librarian. Believe the other one was married to another law student at BYU but I could be wrong about that. My point is that nurturing roles are often part of social conditioning and have little to do with innate features.
The librarians I studied with getting my Masters in Librarianship and Information Management at the University of Denver (Class of May 1984) were very supportive people and very nurturing of each other. Most of these people were teachers looking to get a MA on their resume.
I encountered some truly underhanded and just plain nasty law librarians while at the University of Minnesota Law Library. Most of these people playing very dirty tricks were women. One of the worst of these was attacking my mental health for simply wanting to be honest about a niche in services towards victims/survivors of crimes I had discovered from February 25, 1976 onward in libraries of all types. I had gone to the University of Denver Library School partly because of a man's work on trying to make the law more accessible to lay people. This was Al Coco. Did not find much of these accessibility spirit at the University of Minnesota Law Library and School. Another law librarian-- something of a populist for legal research-- Bob Berring of Boalt Hall Law Library (U of CA, Berkeley), had advised me to be honest about my interest in survivors' rights and their needs in libraries.