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A&O promotions: more women, more in banking

More women at A&O???? Wonderful PR campaign by A&O. Really quite special. The truth is that the VAST majority of the 100+ fee earners let go in the London office over the past few weeks were women. Oh, and plenty of them had children or worked part time. I wonder why A&O won't publish details of how many redundancy victims were female? The truth is, if you are a working mum at A&O, you are doomed to fail. Unless you put off having children until after partnership. And even then, you are at risk of being unfairly binned beforehand. A&O timed their announcement on the same day as the last working day of most of the redundancy victims. It's no coincidence - just an elaborate way of covering up their culls. I geniunely used to think A&O was a better workplace but now I know it is just as cut-throat as the rest of the other big firms.

5-May-2009

12:09 pm