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.