Another day, another problem-with-women-in-the-law piece that perpetuates the women-in-the-law problem.
The ABAJ has apparently mastered time travel, because yesterday they published this piece, dated February 1, 2013, by our ABA President, Laurel Bellows, about shattering the glass ceiling. Bellows takes umbrage with a number of statistics in the latest National Association of Women Lawyer’s survey, which can be found here.
President Bellows starts off by saying:
Time and time again, I have asked myself and others the same questions: Why are female lawyers still grossly underrepresented in positions of real power, influence and leadership? Why is there still such a disparity in pay between female equity partners and their male colleagues performing exactly the same work? Why are female lawyers still shut out of the choice assignments and limited in access to major clients?
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