There is a perception among senior management in some City law firms that female lawyers who take time off work to have a family are no longer ambitious or committed to their careers. Some female lawyers in their thirties hold off starting a family, in the hope that they will be promoted to a partnership position first.
There is a danger that the goalposts for promotion will keep moving, while the woman gets older and her biological clock ticks away. Many women do not obtain the promotion they seek and they often sacrifice the chance of meeting a partner and having a family.
