Recent data has highlighted shrinking gender inequalities in domestic responsibilities when both partners work outside the home. The short of it: Men are picking up more slack in the house when it comes to raising a family.

But there’s one area of parenting that falls 100 percent on women: Childbearing. The individual factors that come into play when deciding whether and when to have children are myriad, but for women lawyers — particularly those on the partner track — the legal profession isn’t exactly the most conducive to starting a family.