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The Pernicious Stereotype of a Gold Digger
I used to teach a course on wills and trusts this is a course that's basically about how you distribute property after somebody has died so either by their will or so kind of a trust or they have some kind of an estate that's being distributed without paperwork in a standard wills and trusts casebook. I would often have to stop in class and sort of make sure that the conversation didn't get overly sort of presumptuous about what was going on here i had to point out these facts in part because of this underlying sexism about particularly about the sort of role of women in these kinds of marriages it was so easy to overlay these stories with narratives about sort of conniving women, says