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cjgl-2761	Hawkins, Jim	Introduction: Female Perspectives in Commercial and Consumer Law	2016	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1523	59	47	In just the past few years, articles have argued that payday lenders target women on welfare and single women;8 criticized payday lenders for targeting economically disadvantaged groups like women;9 found that payday loan advertisements contained more pictures of women than one would predict based on the percentage of women in the general population or in the payday loan market;10 suggested that financial stress pushes more women into payday loans than men;11 posited that the spread of payday lenders is symbolic of the “status-contingent inequalities” that 3 Jim Hawkins, Using Advertisements to Diagnose Behavioral Market Failure in the Payday Lending Market, 51 Wake Forest L. Rev. 57, 58 (2016). In Creditors’ Use of Consumer Debt Criminalization Practices and Their Financial Abuse of Women, Creola Johnson argues that lenders have used the coercive power of the state to enforce debt obligations through criminal laws.14 Focusing on rent-to-own companies and payday lenders, she describes how this debt collection strategy likely disproportionately affects female borrowers.15 In line with the general theme of the symposium, she highlights reasons women in particular might face demands that make them more susceptible than men to the criminalization of their debt.16 Hila Keren takes up the popular show Shark Tank in her article Women in the Shark Tank: Entrepreneurship and Feminism in a Neoliberal Age.	cache/cjgl-2761.pdf	txt/cjgl-2761.txt