UNIT D: BLOG 31

BLOG 31: Work and Home

This topic is one that we have touched on several types through out this course; the problems that arise when women in the field of law have to juggle their home and work lives. From Ch. 5 and 6 it states that women are he ones that are traditionally taking care of the children. This has created problems for women that are trying to advances themselves in the legal profession. These women are trying to advance their career and trying to start a family all at the same time.

Some of the main problems that these women are having are scheduling their work hours, having flexible work hours, reduced hours at the office, and getting all the work done if they have to go for a family emergency. Some suggestions that have been put in place are a flex time schedule so these women get all the same work done, but they can do it on their schedule. Another suggestion is job sharing were two people or could before share the same job and are able to finish the work separate on different days so they can work only a few days a week. The only issue, that the book points out, is that these women are not considered "real lawyers." For layers that are working the "traditional" hours and schedules they think that this is unfair to them.

Even though that implementing these alternative schedules would have advantages such as reducing costs, increase productivity they have not started them. Firms now even have the technology do do things such like this. These policies and new schedules are hard to implement because they are on a base to base standard and there is not clear plan for making them. Then for the people mostly women that would take these positions as part time their status would decrease and they would not get a lot of time in office to do "face to face" working with their clients and co-workers. They would not be as involved in the day to day and firms activities because they would be more of an outside in the process.