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

There is reseach which shows that women (with or without children) get fed up with the culture in law firms (whioh includes all the long hours etc,), not being appreciated, not getting access to the best work and not being promoted when their male colleagues are. So they leave. What a surprise. As well as the issue of women not getting promoted, firms need to think about what they do about women who have taken a career break. The reality is that they find it very difficult or impossible to get back into practice. I do not see any evidence that firms are doing anything about this, despite all the rhetoric. So the skills and experience of these women are lost, while at the same time law firms are saying where have all the women gone? This is really not a difficult issue to solve, if anyone really wanted to. The issue which has not been acknowledged in this discussion is that it is actually about power. Those who have power don't want to give it up and that's part of the reason why fewer women get promoted. Of course logically the best candidate should get promoted, but in fact many people make decisions based on emotions, then they try to justify them. Getting the real issues out in the open would be a good first step.

30-Oct-2012

6:45 pm