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Revealed: females make up less than 10 per cent of top 100's equity partner ranks

Anonolady - if your firm is taking on more female than male trainees, that is as discriminatory as a firm making up more men than women. The reason more men are made up is they tend to work longer hours and bring in more work - law these are necessarily the criteria for becoming partner, law firms aren't charities. How else should elevation to partnership be decided? If women, or men for that matter, choose to spend more time with their children that us their choice, but then they can't complain if their colleagues are promoted ahead of them. The fact ther are more women applying for training contracts and thus forming the bulk of trainees is a result of discriminatory social conditions. Therefore, there being more male partners is germane to there being more female trainees in terms of discrimination.

25-Oct-2012

7:09 pm