Unit D - Blog #29

Few minority women stay with law firms because they are treated as minorities for case assignments. What I mean by this is that minorities are generally matched up with minority cases because firms believe that women lawyers will better relate to women cases of their own race. This may be true but what also happens is that these women are then seen as NOT being able to relate to other people that are not the same race or gender. This leads to a selective amount of cases for minority women and they are unable to advance their careers and therefore leave their jobs. The stories of NPR reflect the frustration that former women layers have with firms and the legal system as a whole. We are supposed to be living in an equal society but instead women are being chastised for who they are as females and then divided by race stereotypes. All the women definitely agreed that they were being assigned to cases that were for them as designated by their firms who were headed by white males. Some of them carried a lot of resentment towards their former employers and how the system works. Some of them almost agreed that with their employers saying that they understood why they were being assigned the cases they were. They left because they knew this type of practice would continue but they were not as resentful maybe because as women they believe their role to be subservient to male bosses.