Women’s Issues

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Plus, details on firms that require employees to sign mandatory arbitration agreements and nondisclosure agreements.

Here all of it is shared and it feels like a safe space where one can finally feel heard and understood.

The future is female, and the Notorious RBG thinks women can get this 'very important' task done.

What, like it's hard?

This has been a week of random neural firings.

Sexist comments have no place in legal briefs, and these judges are doing something about it.

Law school may be the perfect place for women in America to resist, persist, and prove that the future is female.

A new study attempts to find out why.

How stiff are we talking?

And women in general are sorely missed at the high court, making less than a quarter of all appearances.

The future is female, and Her Honor even comes with a tiny gavel.

Which law firms made the cut this year?

* “The president must be held accountable. No one is above the law.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced that Congress will launch a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. [Washington Post]

* Meanwhile, Senate Republicans have promised to quickly do away with any articles of impeachment that are passed by the House, especially if they’re based on the Mueller report, says Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham. This Ukraine incident, on the other hand… [The Hill]

* That having been said, Senate Republicans actually participated in and unanimously passed a bipartisan resolution calling on the White House to disclose the Ukraine whistleblower complaint. [Vox]

* And in the interim, the White House seems to be working on a deal to allow the whistleblower who filed a complaint against Trump to speak with congressional investigators, and the director of national intelligence is likely to release a redacted version of the complaint. [New York Times]

* Former Vice President Joe Biden supports the impeachment effort against Trump, saying that “[d]enying Congress information to which it is constitutionally entitled and obstructing its efforts to investigate actions is not the conduct of an American president.” [New York Times]

* According to Working Mother’s ranking of the Top 100 Companies, only five Biglaw firms made the cut for 2019. Not only that, but those firms are getting beaten by the Big Four when it comes to women’s success and family-friendly policies. [American Lawyer]

* In case you missed it, a “notable convicted murderer” in Wisconsin has reportedly confessed to the murder of Teresa Halbach — the murder for which Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey of Making a Murderer fame have spent years behind bars, all the while proclaiming their innocence. [Newsweek]

Warning: Mansplaining ahead!

Gender is going to matter in your career. You don’t want it to, but it is better to come to terms with it early.

The Notorious RBG is right on the money with this one.

Why is the choice to be a stay-at-home parent only one a mother can make? We work hard to make sure we are in this as a team. 

The extent to which poverty relates to women possessing control over their own procreation decisions should embolden the removal of institutional barriers to birth control; instead, the exact opposite has occurred.

Congratulations to the firms that are working to make the legal profession a little more diverse.