Abstract

[Women in Law. An exception to the rule]. In the legal context, history, literature and art give us an opportunity to talk about the progress of women in the legal professions, their opposed entry, the difficulties of a correct meritocratic and non-discriminatory selection. While the debut of women judges has a precise date, the descent into the field in the forensic arena was more bumpy. The virulence invective of Valerio Massimo against the impudent Caia Afrania, the toga “denied” to Lidia Poët are some examples of an aspiration not shared, judged as an elusive utopia, fraught with dangers for the social order of those times.