Is It All About Gender Discrimination For Women Lawyers?

By now, you know that I welcome all people, men and women alike, under the discussion tent for the purpose of advancing important dialogue.  Every once in awhile, however, I feel the need to distinguish a position before it engulfs you.

Gender discrimination and its proper place in the discussion of advancing women in the law is something you need to think about.   You will hear a lot about gender discrimination and how it is the basis for most of the problems and challenges that women face in the law profession.  However, I am not sure that is true.

Case in point:  I recently heard an expert on workplace issues asked about the Queen Bee Syndrome (the issue involving women, who have “arrived” in the work place and refuse to help their female colleagues advance).  The expert’s answer was that the Queen Bee Syndrome is just another example of gender discrimination.  The support for that assertion was that gender discrimination has pitted women against women as they try to compete for recognition and the few opportunities for upward mobility, and that the behavior of the Queen Bees is the predictable outcome of that discrimination.  In other words, it is a problem created by men.

Would that have been your answer?

Tune into my next blog to find out if it would have been mine.

 

 

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