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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is odd to me. Men love nurses. My DH works in Big Law and it seems like everybody is married to a RN or NP. I’m the odd one out as a non-private sector lawyer. [/quote]

In DC??? I've never met a nurse socially in DC.

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I was thinking the same thing up thread.  I’m a partner in DC biglaw.  First, in 2020, firms are pretty evenly split men and women, maybe 60/40. And while the numbers thin out in partnership ranks, most associates are already married.  Point of all that is, something like 40 percent of married attorneys in DC big law are women. And they aren’t married to nurses.  So it’s bizarre to say that everyone in biglaw is married to nurses, because you’re omitting an entire gender.

Of the men.... These days probably a third have sahm wives.  But it’s a lot more common than twenty years ago for male partners to have a working wife. Twenty years ago, all capital partners, most income partners and a handful of associates had sahm wives.  Now it’s probably most cap partners, few income partners and no associates. Of those sahms, its a mix of former professions, but Former lawyer is the most frequent.

Thinking around my firm of the wives of the men, I can think of two lawyers, one speech pathologist, one sahm former teacher, one doctor, a few sahm former lawyers.... And a couple of the old rainmakers have (Second) Trophy wives.  the only nurse wife I can remember in my whole career was an older partner (would have been early 60s) back in the 2000s whose wife was a retired big shot nurse.  She’d run the program at a top school, if I recall.  But that dude is long retired.

But by far, most frequent career or former career of any attorney in big law is lawyer.  [/quote]

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