Firm Leadership, Not Motherhood, Fails Women When It Comes To Gender Equity In Biglaw
Don't believe the hype. Pregnancy isn't why women are put on the back burner in Biglaw.
Men who think they are being sympathetic by lightening the load of pregnant women and new moms are doing them a huge disservice. I have extraordinarily talented and productive female partners who have never married and have no kids and are not rewarded to the same extent as men with similarly situated practices.
— An anonymous female partner at an Am Law 100 firm, commenting on the myth that women lag behind men in Biglaw due to their commitments to motherhood, family, and work/life balance. Instead, we ought to look to law firm leadership to see where the problem lies. According to Kirkland & Ellis partner Michael Williams, “Leadership fails [women]. Leadership needs to do more to recognize and invest in their trajectories.”
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