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Originally Posted by ferrets_bueller
GGG:
Almost certainly because I am older, I cannot agree that the workplace now is pretty much the same as the one my wife, esq., and I entered in the early '70s. Less than 3% of our law school class was women. Less than 1% were black. When my wife went to work at what was then a mid-size law firm on Wall Street, there were no women partners and she was the second woman associate. Black lawyers were mythical creatures on Wall Street.
Is the profession where it should be on these issues? No. But it is far, far better than it was.
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You've got 15 years on me, and I had a little career before law school, so you probably got out of law school 20 years before me.
By the time I went to school, my law school was 51% women and the firm I went to had a number of great women partners, probably 5-10% of the partnership. Today, that firm may have broken 10% women partners, but if it has, it is just barely. The years between you and I were years of great progress, the years since - meh.
