"Don’t raise your voice at me. It’s not becoming of a woman.” “Honey.” “Darling.” “You either run with the nannies or you run with the wolves.” A pat on the head. An arm around the shoulder.
Female lawyers might once have had to ignore comments and actions like these for fear of imperiling their careers. But the American Bar Association will vote on Monday on whether to prohibit harassment and discrimination by lawyers in the course of practicing law, establishing protections nationwide that are already in place in many states.
Sexist remarks to female lawyers are “among the more overt signifiers of the discrimination, both stated and implicit, that contributes to their underrepresentation in the legal field,” according to a study by the bar association.
(Published by The New York Times - August 5, 2016)