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What Do Women Want? Law Firms Are Clueless

by Penny Tucker
April 28, 2019
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Memo to all you well-meaning regulation firms accessible trying your darnedest to retain and sell ladies: You are doing it all wrong.

All those outstanding projects you’ve been touting—flexible work preparations, mentoring applications, affinity groups, transition education for brand new moms and so forth—aren’t getting women out of the rut. Worse, some of those efforts can be making it tougher for girls to be triumphant.

That’s the deflating, if hardly startling, an initial finding of a study by means of Acritas and Thomson Reuters that checked out 40 companies (predominantly U.K.-based totally) in Europe. As first of all mentioned with the aid of Legal Week, the observe finds there’s a massive fat gap among what companies understand because of the restoration to the gender trouble and what’s needed in fact.

For starters, a majority of companies (53 percent) ranked flexibility because of the pinnacle method to solving the gender imbalance problem at their corporations.

 

Why flexibility? Well, it appears corporations are making certain assumptions approximately the tension spots in girls’ lives. Besides “bias,” companies named “the need for presenteeism” (translation, “face time”) and “the position of girls at domestic in society” as key barriers, suggesting that girls will face conflicts among home and work.

While it’s fine that companies want to assist out ladies with their competing needs, may additionally I simply say that I find this presumption of work-family conflict to be sexist? As I’ve frequently cited, it’s not as if childless women in Big Law have such an easy time advancing either.

Moreover, bendy running preparations, at the side of women’s networking businesses and mentoring packages, could be making girls extra remoted.

“We’re not announcing that firms shouldn’t provide flexibility,” says Acritas CEO Lisa Hart Shepherd. “The trouble is that girls are those who take it up.”

As for affinity companies, Shepherd says: “Anything that creates silos is bad.” All those closed-door classes in which ladies vent about their frustrations might not be advancing the difficulty, because “men ought to be part of the solution,” says Shepherd. “If they’re opened to guys, it turns into a part of the high-quality territory.”

And what about mentoring and sponsorship, which is supposed to be the magic bullet so that it will catapult ladies to partnership and different glories?

“Both have roles to play in advancing ladies, but that’s not going to resolve the demanding situations that corporations have which can be extra structural,” says Lucinda Case, dealing with the director at Thomson Reuters.

“There’s not anything wrong with mentoring,” adds Shepherd, “however you need to be cautious approximately what’s now not operating.” She explains: “Mentoring and sponsoring is ready fixing ladies to fit the machine, but it’s more effective to fix the machine.”

Which receives us to what the research says do paintings to promote gender equality: giving ladies have identical paintings opportunities and nipping bias in the bud.

“The corporations that do higher with girls are targeted on institutional bias and blind paintings assignments,” Case says. Without addressing those baseline troubles, the other sweets are just throwaways.

“When new matters are available in, you have to observe absolutely everyone’s experience and take out subjective thing in assigning subjects,” says Shepherd, adding that each Clifford Chance and Norton Rose Fulbright have delivered “objective assignments.”

What’s also important, she provides, is schooling for unconscious bias: “Whether it’s pressured or voluntary, it’s had a fantastic effect. When there are sexual harassment and bullying education, there’s a higher chance you’ll create a greater truthful, a ways less toxic place of job. The most impactful thing to do is to repair the environment.” (In the survey, best 17 percent of corporations diagnosed hard bias as a pinnacle solution to promote gender equality.)

Eliminating unconscious bias, doing away with favoritism in allotting work and placing the emphasis on solving the paintings environment (rather than the girls): Uh-oh, that sounds type of drastic—like a change in way of life.

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