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Yea, we've been asking why firm leadership and partners are predominantly male when women have been graduating in higher numbers for decades too. It starts with interviews and hiring, we get weeded out in the middle by the hostility and toxic cultures, despite our hard work and often superior dedication and work product, and for those of us who do make it through the associate years now end up as counsel, not as partner.
They basically created a special gold star position to sideline women. Women need to conduct a coup and hostile takeover to change the culture and system to be habitable for us though or it's not going to change. Us being there and our work product is not enough.... it's not going to change who makes it to the top. We'll just end up being disposable labor to support rich old white guys.
I was told that articling interviews that, despite first class standing + piles of law school awards, good references, that I "just came across as a washed-up middle-aged woman." I was 38, retrained from a career where I also won myriad top awards. I never, ever heard my "mature" student peers receive this sort of feedback; seven years later, many of these guys are already partners while I'm still floundering to find a solid career.
Stop asking firms to make sure their diverse employees are the ones who do OCI. I, a female senior associate with a toddler, do not want to be guilted into doing this. As it is I have to put time aside in my day to do callbacks throughout the summer because inevitably female candidates ask to speak to a woman with children.
It really is okay if OCI is run by the male partners in their 50s who don’t mind taking an entire day to talk to law students.
It doesn’t sound right, because it is not.
I’m on the recruiting committee at a top-tier mid-law firm, and we screen and/or call back 150+ law students every year. Screening interviews are conducted by a single partner who makes the callback decision, and callbacks are 5 separate interviews, typically with 3 partners and 2 associates. We try to balance men and women interviewers for each candidate, though it depends on who volunteers and is available.
Statistically, our male interviewers (both partners and associates) are disproportionately more likely to offer a callback interview or recommend an offer to female candidates than female interviewers. I read an article somewhere (I don’t have handy) that this is typical among larger firms (100+ attys). If I recall correctly, this is also analogously true for underrepresented candidates and interviewers.
I’ll leave it to others to speculate as to why that is, but the stats show that OP’s daughter has a better chance of success with male interviewers.
People get multiple offers so there is some waiting and shifting in who gets an offer depending on who of the top candidates accepts.
As another poster mentioned, higher ups including partners, equity partners & managing partners, are all white men. Sexism is very real. As a young female attorney, I have experienced it countless times.
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I’m not sure how you can say that—have you been to Austin or San Francisco? Or smaller cities like Eugene?
I’m in DC where 92.5% of the populated voted blue in the last presidential election. It is unquestionably a left wing city.
I appreciate all of the comments. I’ve been out of law firms for a long time, and I kinda hoped things had changed by now.
No I’m just a woman with tons of women attorney friends, colleagues, and clients. I speak but as I find. 🤷♀️
Luck of the draw. Wasn’t my experience going through OCI relatively recently.
I’ve had the opposite experience interviewing for in-house roles. Most are middle aged female hiring managers. I’d rather have men to be honest. I get judged harder when it’s an older female. And it also doesn’t help if you’re attractive and a female.
Some people care about other things besides gender. Should we insist that the individuals conducting OCIs comport to our wishes? Search the law firm page and find out what the breakdown is.