Blog 37

What I find most prevalent with women in the profession of law is that each one has to make her own dent and fight her own battles. One women's success is not shared with others but one woman’s failures are shared with all. The negatives are always looming around the corner and they will always shine like a neon light affecting thousands of females within the same profession. The American Bar Association has several reports finding discrimination in various stages against female lawyers. While some progress has changed the problems females in law face it has been passive aggressive tactics to help them. Time, is not an option since that is how we have been handling sexism in the work place and it has shown unsatisfying results. I do think time will only help females since the women entering law schools keeps jumping up statistically and women are making up more of the percentage of co eds. Women are becoming more prominent in the work place despite little effort to improve their working lives by corporations, more women are coming back to work because of the economy but also more women are putting off having families so they can establish themselves first. Women are not the ideal worker because of families, which makes them postponing them somewhat of a irony, men will never take off time because they have a wife or a women to take care of their children. We need to change societal views as well as implement better hours that offer some flexibility without harming the mothers career or the corporation/firm. It seems that women cannot win in this profession because they aren’t aggressive enough but are too forthcoming. I female lawyers need to step up their aggressive tactics in the courtroom and leave emotions outside the door but we really need to stop stereotyping and putting all women in one category. You never hear about a male lawyer being emotional and thus effecting all male lawyers’ reputations.