The pat effect.

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Women lawyers with masculine-sounding names in South Carolina have a better chance of becoming judges than those with very feminine names, according to a study reported in the ABA Journal. Researchers from Clemson University found that changing a feminine name to a more masculine name (Sue to Cameron, for example) tripled the odds of that woman becoming a judge. They looked...