I remember several years back working with another reporter on a piece about women in law, which focused on the relative lack of female partners. The article tried to assess the prospects for changes to the industry’s working practices that would ease the conflict for female lawyers between parenthood and making partner.
After the piece came out, my colleague told me that he didn’t think law firms needed to change at all, in the sense that it wouldn’t damage them commercially to keep losing huge numbers of expensively-trained women lawyers. I knew he was right.
