The Mental Load Of Working Parenthood In Biglaw
Cognitive and emotional labor take a silent toll on women lawyers, impacting promotion and leadership at major firms. How can we improve experiences for women and strengthen teams and firms?
Cognitive and emotional labor take a silent toll on women lawyers, impacting promotion and leadership at major firms. How can we improve experiences for women and strengthen teams and firms?
Thriving firms depend on working parents. Consistent support of those lawyers through parental leave policies and related practices is vital.
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Leave periods involve profound changes, at home and personally. What are supportive strategies that will allow you to return clear-eyed and grounded?
Managers make or break parental leave experiences yet rarely are trained on the topic. What do they (and law firms) need to know?
Set the tone for your leave with foresight, strategy, and clear boundaries.
Learn why bringing parental leave into the sunlight is good for new parents, firm-wide morale, and the bottom line.
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The firm's parental leave policy is under a microscope.
Almost everyone in this firm's new partnership class has a newborn baby.
What an absolutely awful policy.
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This is fantastic news for new parents.
What is it going to take to finally change the tune at firms, so that parents no longer need to fear if or when to raise the question of growing their family?
This will likely be brought up at DLA's next Women's Summit. Awkward.
Why? Because your employees deserve to be treated with respect when they do the very human thing of having a child.