Blog 39

English talks about equality and reorganizing for the future. Work and balance can be obtained by providing a new starting point for debate and dialogue, to expand the gender-issues focus from solely about women to all lawyers, men and women alike, and to articulate a vision for the future, one that emphasizes everyone's concerns and deals with concepts rather than stark numbers, favoring personality and skills over gender. I think that this brings up an issue. The stark number are staggering in regards to the statistics that there are so many qualified women in the work force, but they are extremely underrepresented. personality and skills are usually already there, so this suggestion means 2 things; women don't have personality and stills, or they are just not being hired because of their gender. There needs to be a change to the "qualifications" of hiring for the future because the stark numbers are just not showing equality.

Blog 38

Dorothy Frooks was an incredible lawyer in her time. She was a veteran of world war 1 and 2, for both the army and navy. She worked as a writer for the New York Evening World and published the Murray Hill News in 1952. She also wrote a pamphlet, entitled Labor Courts Outlaw Strikes, calling for the establishment of a labor court. She was well known for she social and political activism. Frooks established free legal clinics, and she lobbied to set up small claims courts. Frooks died in 1997 at the age of 101.

Blog 37

Charting Our Progress finds that women are gaining incremental success, within major areas. There are more women in more positions. There are more suggestions to making the law field more family friendly, and more women friendly. English also suggests that there needs to be organizational initiatives implemented so that there can be equality. Also there needs to be system solutions, when there needs to be more regular performance reviews, mentoring systems, work assignments, flexible work arrangements, and measurements for success. This will help assert a better system for equality with the law profession.

Blog 36

Corporate America is making weak attempts to lure women into the work force. It has been shown that more women diverse companies are making more money, and are more successful. But this weak attempt is not showing more women in higher positions. Also, there are more and more balance issues, and the higher positions have more tipping issues. Then when the women who are having families are not eying these higher positions due to time constraints. The attempt of corporate America is not really working.
These weak attempts to get women in higher positions is a deeply rooted problem. The higher jobs have been formed for males, with total disregard for balancing work with a family. But there are brighter areas where women can break through the glass ceiling, but the corporation needs to recognize that more diversified companies, employing more women in higher positions are more successful.

Blog 35

Really, just coming out now with a recommendation to promote work and family balance? Oh right, a while ago women were stay at home mothers, not needing these suggestions. As Americans, we are placing high value on money making, and not the richness of family. It is crazy to think that we have been neglecting our children so much that they are making these recommendations. There has always been an enqual work issue when it comes to women, most of the time they are children s care givers. The suggestions were, "These care giving responsibilities are not distributed evenly across the working population. As the EEOC's best practices document notes, the care of children and other dependents is disproportionately provided by women, and even more disproportionately by women of color. Men's role in parenting and other caregiving has increased, but is still vastly outweighed by women's. At the same time, women's workforce participation has dramatically increased, so that women account today for 46 percent of the workforce, and women's earnings are increasingly important".
So women are making up 46% and still now receiving equal pay, and they are also taking care of the children, with out a lot of help. Can we pay women equally please? Or maybe we can come up with a free child care system that help with the labor load women are experiencing. Or the fathers of the family need to step up and help balance the scales. And now there are more layoffs happening to men, women are strained more than ever, but if the father is home out of work, maybe they can watch children, and help balance out the scales.

Blog 34

Joan William's book was about the sexual stereotypes about who should do what kinds of work, it not only perpetuates a wage discrepancy, but also mess up any feelings of productive work experiences which detracts from family life. This book says to overcome this problem, we must implement progressive work policies, so society can change work into a more pleasurable and profitable experience, but also leaving more time for the family.
English discusses many issues related to work and life balance. Some lawyers are trying to obtain a part time schedule, and it's just not working. They are not valued as part time workers, and working part time effects their advancement. This working of less hours sometimes puts a kink in other peoples schedules. There are also a lot of other issues trying to create a flexible schedule. Women are trying to gain respect, but in the law work place, working less hours will not gain you the respect you want.
In terms of women working, it was said that women some times to not have their heart and soul at work, but also says that if they have something to look forward to at the end of the day, they work more efficiently and diligently. Mothers do no need to give up their law careers, but the family definitely suffers.
The working mother needs a few factors going on in her situation. If the have a significant other they have to trade duties to balance out family life. And now younger men are demanding time off to spend with their families. In Joan's book, there is progressive movements which need to be established in work structures, which is somewhat happening in English's' writings. But overall i think that the law realm is an oversturctured good ole boys club, and certain firms are inflexible to different schedules that are requested.

Blog 33

The glass ceiling has been crack, not yet shattered. There are now so many different opportunities that women have now, and are taking. We have had women run for president and vice president. We have another female supreme court justice, and an awesome fist lady, who has great ideas. We are now making more female hires with in larger companies, and researchers are now starting to realize that women are able to positively impact profits and performance of them selves and the employees effected by them. Women are recognized now for their hard work ethic and the large amount of work they have in every day life, from mother to lawyer to politician, etc. There will always be challenges to overcome. Women are still discriminated against, and are still not receiving equal pay to their male counterparts as well as being passed up for promotions because of their gender. But now, women are accounting for more than half of the people getting or attaining a college undergraduate degree, and almost there for receiving PhD degrees. Overall, women in the law field still have work to do to gain equality, but they are making people take nothic to what we are still experiencing. There are imputting woman's iniutives in law firms, and passing laws for woman's rights.