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Gender Equality
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Legal Ease Blog
Are Women Lawyers Selling Themselves Short?
At a recent local bar association committee meeting, one committee member commented that, as women lawyers, we should be doing more to mentor other women within the profession. Many women…
Family Law Prof Blog
Egalitarian Marriages At Cost of Egalitarian Society?
By Family Law
"“Some of usare becoming the men we wanted to marry,” Gloria Steinem proclaimed 25 years ago. She meant, of course, that women in large numbers were seizing the places in…
Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices
Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms
By Gerry Riskin
In July of 2006, The National Association of Women Lawyers challenged law firms to double the number of women equity partners and for corporations to double the number of women…
La Revue
Le chantier de l’égalité des rémunérations: anticipez !
Malgré un impressionnant arsenal juridique national et international , les différences de rémunération entre les hommes et les femmes ne s’estompent pas. Or, la loi du 23 mars 2006 impose…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Subtle roadblocks exist for women in the law
The articles about women being at a disadvantage in the work place, especially in the law, keep coming. The latest from the Boston Business Journal in an article entitled 'Subtle…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Absence of women in senior legal positions reason legal industry is lagging
Recent articles on the absence of women in leading legal positions is just more proof that our profession is totally out of touch with the times. Latest comes from Carolyn…
Family Law Prof Blog
Equality and Sexual Satisfaction
By Family Law
"Sex is more satisfying in countries where women and men are considered equal, according to an international study of people between the ages of 40 and 80 by researchers at…
Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices
Bruce MacEwen’s letter to the editor of the New York Times
By Gerry Riskin
Many have written about the New York Times article, Why Do So Few Women Reach the Top of Big Law Firms?, but of it all I think you may want…
Other
Women
By Patrick Lamb
Many fellow bloggers have followed up on the story in the New York Times that women represent only 17% of the partners in the nation's major firms. I ended up…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Worldwide Glass Ceilings at Work
Accenture just completed a study which suggests that there still exists a substantial "glass ceiling" for women seeking advancement in their organizations. And not only in the United States, but…