UNIT D: BLOG 33

BLOG 33:





In the 2008 NAWL survey it stated that female lawyers do not get to the same positions as their male counter parts such as partner,l managing positions, and governance positions. Over the past decades women have made great strides in becoming part of the non traditional work force such he the once male dominated legal profession. Both men and women are attending law school and programs at the same rate, but the only problem is that more men than women are actually starting and going into law firms. All women are having problems going into law firms, but women that are minorities are the ones that are the most under represented by accounting for only 11 percent of associate ans around 3 to 4 percent of partner status (NAWL).





Even tough women are making advancements into the legal profession they are still being presented with some short comings. On every level of a law firm from associate to partner men are making more money then their female co-workers (NAWL). To help women advance in their field about 97 percent of law firms have started implementing programs to help women such as networking, development programs and mentoring programs (NAWL survey). networks help these women open doors and get connected to people and places to help them advance and access information. They need to have networks that are diverse and unique to help them so the information is new and refreshing to help them with various of aspects. These kind of networking and programs will help these women succeed and advance. (Women Leadership: Importance of Networks).

There is in a new type of firm that is out there according to the NAWL survey. This is the mixed-tier firm. In this new type of firm that require equity partners to contribute capital into their firm and then some of these people are paid on their income. In the position as an equity partner in firms it was shown that women that women are being recruited at a higher rate now. The women that are being recruited are the ones that have just graduated and are just starting out. Even though women are advancing in this way we still have more equality to go because along with more women there is still twice as many men being recruited right along with them. So, there are more women, which is great and shows women are breaking into the legal business more, but men are doing this at a higher rate (NAWL survey).

Another aspect that women are dealing with in advancing in the legal profession is with breaking the glass ceiling. This is how and what women are doing to break into the legal profession. An advancement that helped women break the glass ceiling is by the help of Hilary Clinton and Sara Palin. Just the fact that these two women were out there helped make two more cracks in the gall ceiling. By having these women out there it helped break ground for women in politics and law giving the public use to having and comfortable having women out there in traditional male dominated jobs. Having powerful and dominate women such as these two have helped women all over take power over their lives.