As we all know it has been more recent than before to see women practicing law. 30-50 years ago the thought of a women becoming a lawyer was just something that you did not see. It wasn’t a matter of if they could or could not do it. It was more about the time period of modesty, and how families were brought up. During those times men would be the ones that went to work, made the money needed for the family, and then brought that home to the household. While on the other hand, women were the homemakers. The women that would get the kids up in the morning, breakfast for the family and then would see her husband off to work, and her kids off to school. Now that times have changed, mainly because this society is no longer a one salary job that in turn can support both sides of the family; it really does take two incomes in today’s society to support a family. With that many women have gone to school, and worked their way all the way to practicing law. Now since this is still relatively new, many older lawyers feel the need to look over the female lawyers in the practice. Many of the lawyers that have been around quite a bit still have mixed emotions about women practicing law as they tend to usually be a bit more modest and resistant. However, in this position at time you need to be able to step outside that comfortable zone from time to time to go to bat for your client and get the win that they hired you to do. Either way, many male lawyers have stated the need to make sure that they give the backing as sometimes women lawyers need to have that presented to them otherwise they feel they are being over looked.
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