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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I could go on and on, why aren't there more male nurses? Why aren't there more women lawyers etc etc.
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Speaking to my own experience in the legal industry, the major issue is nepotism and improper accommodations for women having children. Women form a majority of law students and a significant majority of new hires. However, if they want to take time off from their careers to have children, for the most part they are immediately removed from any kind of management/senior counsel track. On top of that there's issues of old white men putting their spawn into positions of power.
The old white men stay at the top. They hire a bunch of visible minorities and women for the entry level positions, so they can say my firm has X amount of women or minorities, but they have no mechanism for those people to actually make it into past the lower level. They have no intention of sharing what they've "earned".
The majority of women I know who are having success in law are those that are going out on their own. Many of these women are much better at running a business than the average senior lawyer (lawyers generally aren't great at that, and the ones who've been spoon-fed partnerships without building the business from the ground up are generally much worse) and are very successful.
There's also all sorts of other issues related to employment wages being crap across the board, and that applies to the legal industry. So people who go out on their own often make significantly more than their big firm employee counterparts. Part of this is related to the inability of many lawyers to run a profitable business and partly related to greedy senior partners.