blog 31

Family is a job in itself; children are a huge responsibility and a huge financial obligation. Women come to cross roads when it comes to their career and their family. They have spent so much time, so much money, and years working towards becoming a partner at a law firm and they may be extremely close, but when they have a family things start to shift. They may realize that they aren’t being taken as seriously anymore because many of the male partners do not want someone who is stretching their time so thin and they want the firm to be number one priority which usually is not the case when children come into the picture.
Flexible work hours are not up for negotiation when it comes to law firms, which such a huge want to be in the field there is always someone younger, hungrier and more unattached to take the hours you can’t make because of children. If they do get away with flexible hours the more ‘dedicated’ usually male lawyers have a low respect for them and they are not considered to be key players in the firm. This also makes face time with partners, and it doesn’t make you available for promotions. Also co workers become more hostile if a female in the firm is getting work and part time because they are full time or they are constantly at work. These environments and hostile attitudes make it hard to coop at work and many female lawyers do not want the added stress of that and feel that with added hostility their career goals are further out of reach.
Women have a hard enough time in the field of law, they do not need added point against them, as great as it would be to change the minds of older egotistical males I do not believe that will happen. Men view women as inferior in the work force in pretty much every field but nursing and teaching. Adding on the stress of a family is not good for a career women especially one in a male dominated profession.