blog 39

Of course there needs to be several changes in the profession of law to help women become the 'ideal worker' since the ideal worker is severely out dated in today’s work environment and society. English's reworking of ideals and issues brings women more to date in today’s work environment. Alternative work schedules allow female lawyers to have a family but not at such a large expense of their careers. It helps them keep the hold in their firms that they worked so bitterly for in the first place. Alternative schedules, more access to the firm’s partners and higher ranked attorneys while being able to socialize within the firm would make women’s opportunities better and more frequent. Also women are afraid to take maternity leave and so are fathers paternity leave is frowned upon, we need to change or at least tweak the mindset that balancing life is a bad decision. Work in America seems to be at the forefront of priorities when in most countries its second, that being said a lot of countries have a fair more populated work environment, women wise. Another main reason women cannot seem to gain access to partners is because most are men. Men tend to congregate with other men, and women have a hard time breaking through the barrier. This is because they do not have access to the partners through company functions and meetings that are dominated by males. As a few lawyers pointed out many women’s actions seem to make other older partners think they are not committed, children aside women tend to look at different aspects of an argument and when there is an acknowledgment of the other side they are seem as impressionable. Women’s ways of dealing with people, time, arguments, and money vary greatly from their male counter parts and since it is a new way of doing things it is frowned upon and when you are frowned upon or at least your actions are you aren’t usually promoted.