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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a lawyer and the gender pay gap in the law is really dramatic because of the penalty in the law for being a woman with kids (there is no penalty for men for having kids). The women who transcend it either (1) do not have children, or (2) have a spouse who is willing to be the primary parent. It's not very common.

Women are making a lot of progress (it's waaaaaaaay better than it was a generation ago, and that was waaaaaaay better than it was a generation before that) but it's still nowhere close to equal. Especially among top earners. I have friends and colleagues who are partners at tippy top firms, and considered the leaders in their practice specialties. The women don't make as much as the men. They work as hard, they are as smart, they are as good with clients, the money doesn't match.

It is especially brutal because of how much it costs to become a lawyer (law school is obscenely expensive) and the ROI for women isn't as good.

I am 20 years into my career and these are painful truths -- I really thought we were further along than this when I entered the field.[/quote]

Totally agree. I am 25 years into my career and  happen to be a GC. But goodness, what it took to get here. My aunt who became a lawyer in the 70s has stories about men wanting to call her husband to see if she would be allowed to work, etc. She was the first lawyer at her major firm to have a baby. There was literally no such thing as maternity leave. She actually made partner in the early 80s but the men she worked with still wanted to check with her husband on whether she could travel for work, etc.[/quote]

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