Unit D - Blog #33

Even though most of these blogs have been about doom and gloom and portray a lot of negative impacts that occur to women lawyers, there are some advancements that have occurred recently for women in offices. With the media attention on Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton in 2007 the world was exposed to two high powered female leaders. It also gave the world two distinctly different female leaders. You had a conservative, mother in Sarah Palin and a liberal, former first lady in Hillary Clinton. Both advocated for very different morals and ideas but were not afraid to stand up with the men and talk politics. Both were of course analyzed over and over again for being a woman instead of analyzed for what they stood for as a politician. Hillary Clinton then obtained a high ranking cabinet position in Obama's administration. The majority House leader is also a woman showing society that it is time for change. Women are staying at law firms for longer periods of time (except minority women) showing that they are persevering though the man's world and maybe even changing some firms' minds about how women operate. They still face challenges of being promoted and being stereotyped but hopefully more leadership roles will discourage this way of thinking. If women who are in high leadership roles stayed away from interviews about their makeup and wardrobe I think it would benefit women as a whole because we could see that they truly care about their positions and it does not matter what shade of red you wear when you are running for office.