Women In Law Presentation: Building the Bench, By Kristen Harris
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Building the pathway to leadership for women in the law. This presentation discusses gender bias for women in law firms and as in-house counsel and actionable steps to create pathways to leadership development for women.
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- 2. —JENA McGREGOR, WASHINGTON POST 2
- 4. 4 Where Are We? Facts About Women In The Law 1 2 3 4 5
- 5. Female Lawyers are more likely to be relegated to do office housework Nancy Salzman, former General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at ExlService Holdings and filed a $20 million gender bias claim against the company claiming the CEO continually marginalized her-and other female leaders. Including demanding that she, as one of the women in the room, serve cake to the rest of the attendees of the meeting. Female Lawyers Paid Less Than Equally Qualified Colleagues.” In a US survey, male partners in law firms were paid more than 44% than their female counterparts. Women of color were paid even less. Facts 5 “Female Lawyers are more likely to be interrupted than male lawyers”. 65.9% of all interruptions on the US Supreme Court are directed at the three female justices on the bench (Bader Ginsburg, Sotomayor, Kagan).
- 6. The Value Proposition More Diversity Including Cognitive Diversity Results in Higher Employee Satisfaction, More Risk Awareness, More Innovation, and Higher Profitability in Companies !
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- 10. What We Can Do !
- 11. 11 What Can We Do? An Action Plan 1 2 3 4 5
- 12. 12 Make this a business priority with your male leaders- and create metrics that keep the initiative on track. 1
- 13. 13 2 Define what success looks and add in metrics and clearly defined quantifiable outcomes…and don’t forget her financial goals!
- 14. 14 Female sponsors are more important than mentors- Because a woman’s career is often decided when she is not in the room. 3
- 15. 15 4 Give actionable and constant feedback to your female employees that allows them to develop and chart their growth.
- 16. 16 Create truly gender-blind systems and processes for recruitment and pay to avoid biases about female contributions. 5
- 17. One Last Thing What type of leaders are we creating? Do we choose the next level because they resemble ourselves or are we choosing leaders who will take the organization to the next level and on its own path? !
- 18. “ 18 —Melinda Gates “When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.”
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- 20. Copyright Notice Except as otherwise noted, this presentation is © Kristen Harris under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/