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The author examines women lawyers' status and mobility in Quebec. After outlining the structure of the legal profession in Quebec, the author reviews women's entry into the law. Although Quebec [...]

Using data from the American Bar Association's National Survey of Career Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction (1990), the authors estimate the incidence and impact of sexual harassment in the legal profession. Nearly two-thirds of female lawyers in private practice and nearly half of those in corporate or public agency settings reported either experiencing or observing sexual harassment by male superiors, colleagues, or clients during the two years prior to the survey. Female lawyers who had experienced or observed sexual harassment by male superiors or colleagues reported lower overall job satisfaction than did those who had not, as well as a greater intention to quit. The authors speculate that employers and coworkers may sometimes be able to sexually harass female employees in ways or degrees that are not sanctionable but that induce the victims to quit., Sexual harassment may contribute to an undetermined extent to many aspects of women's employment experience, including absenteeism, turnover, productivity rates and work motivation, job dissatisfaction, and unemployment. - MacKinnon, Sexual [...]

A survey reveals that some two-thirds of associates in employment law departments are women and that the likelihood of women heading the department is almost equal to that of men. Results also show that more women are attaining partner status but are yet to attain parity at the level of equity partner. The working conditions of women working in employment law are examined further.

WOULD WOMEN LAWYERS PREFER TO WORK WITH MEN OR other women? The answer may depend on the age of the female lawyer you re asking, an ABA Journal survey has [...]

The report from Inforum and Wayne State University looked at Michigan's 50 largest companies by market capitalization. Of those, 16 were in the Fortune 500 and 10 were in the [...]

The number of women lawyers has grown substantially in the past 30 years, but women still must cross a chasm between law firms' front doors and their corner offices. A [...]

Although a majority of women lawyers believe that male and female lawyers are treated equally in their organization, a new ABA Journal poll indicates that women in the legal profession [...]

TO STRIKE A SATISFYING balance between work and family, lawyers must learn when to pursue perfection--and when a little less will do. That's what we discovered in our nationwide survey [...]