Interesting piece by Shari Qualters in the Boston Business Journal:
Lawyers seek roots of slow partner pace for women.
The Massachusetts legal industry is taking steps to shore up its ranks of female partners in the wake of recent findings indicating the number of women on the partner track has stagnated.
As female law school enrollments edge close to the 50 percent mark -- up from 20 percent in 1974 and 40 percent in 1985, according to the American Bar Association -- Boston's largest firms report female partnership percentages in the mid-teens to the 25 percent range. A number of firms are sufficiently worried about attrition in the ranks of up-and-coming females to change policies and add support systems in an effort to keep them on the partner track.
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