Blog 26

Female lawyers have commonly felt the role males play in assisting women are usually mentor/teaching positions. Women lawyers have reported that since a lot of clients are expecting a male lawyer, female lawyers often are given assistance from male lawyers because of the expectation. These law offices are gendered organizations because females need male reinforcement. Gendered organizations are usually places that have a hierarchy of mostly one gender, which are usually males. There always has to be a male present for certain clients and/or judges to be made believers. A lot of the time, male lawyers are used because certain clients do not believe what a female lawyer has to say, and needs a male's opinion on her side to reinforce what she has said previously to the client. A women also reported that she answered a clients question, and the client asked the question again to a male just to re-affirm the answer. These situations women experience makes a woman's job so much harder, they catch a lot of flack from co-workers because it looks like they cannot complete their job duties, which it is just because they are not believable due to stereotypes they experience. These stereotypes that women experience are, clients second guessing them because they are unstable, emotional, insecure beings. These stereotypes exist because of what, and how did all the men attain all of the power again? There needs to be a few men who step up and assert women as powerful and knowledgeable humans.