Throughout the course of this past semester we have studied quite a bit in regards to the trials, tribulations, and difficulties that woman have had to overcome while breaking into the workforce over the past 20 to 50 years. Now granted over this time period women were very instrumental in many different career fields, however, breaking into the justice field has been a lot more difficult for them. We have see many case studies of women wanting to become involved however, not doing so as they feel it was too tough of a career for them. There are also many other opinions that have been given as well for them not getting involved with this career field. Now when going through the recent course material I can recall many different items of why the number of women that are involved in our justice system seems to be so low; first off women becoming lawyers is something that takes a very special women to do. You must have thick skin, and decent head on your shoulders and willing to take quite a bit of criticism it seems from male colleagues. Even though there are laws out there on the books that will protect us from job discrimination based on gender and harassment, it’s a lot more difficult for a women to actually report a colleague that this is occurring to them. We have heard many stories throughout the course of the semester regarding the difficulties that women have had to deal with while working in the justice field. With the recent publication by Holly English she has really been able to shed some light of the difficulties that women who become lawyers may have. Between the balancing of the long hours due to being a lawyer, to the time of trying to actually balance a home life and kids. We have to make sure that women are able to handle all things at hand. Her proposal to given women and men the equal right and change while practicing law is what would be best. Even though women may take on more responsibility in the home, they still are plenty capable of having a rewarding career as an attorney.
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I agree that women need to have a thick skin to he in this profession in order to deal with criticism from male colleges. Since taking on a "thick skin" is like taking on a male leadership style...do you think it is fair that women need to take on all these roles in order to function in this work environment? In your opinion what is it going to take until we get to the point that a women can act like a woman (non-thick skinned for example) and still be as successful as a man?
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