Women in the study’s focus groups and individual interviews reported that law firm compensation was “rife with bias” and “blatantly unfair.” Indeed, several female lawyers reported being told that they were making less than their male counterparts because the men have to support a wife and kids, in spite of our assumptions that such thinking went the way of “Mad Men” and the fact that many of the women in the study are the main breadwinners in their family.
Although firm leaders and male partners believe their firms do well in advancing experienced women, those women disagree. providing resources to relieve pressures from family obligations that are faced more often by women than men;ensuring that there is a critical mass of female partners on key firm committees.
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