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Women Lawyers Expected To Bring Baked Goods, Aprons To Work

Just because you work at a large law firm, it doesn't mean you'll escape the "women's work."

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I’m not sure you want someone with my hourly rate making coffee.

— A California lawyer’s sassy comeback to a colleague at her firm who asked her to brew a pot of coffee.

This is just one of the tidbits that Professor Joan Williams of UC Hastings Law shares in her new book, What Works for Women at Work (affiliate link). Williams notes that professional women are expected to perform office “housework” — like “bring cupcakes for a colleague’s birthday, order sandwiches for office lunches and answer phones in the conference room” — much more often than their male colleagues.

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