Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Why Legal Secretaries Hate Women Lawyers « Above the Law: A Legal Web Site – News, Commentary, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts

Why Legal Secretaries Hate Women Lawyers « Above the Law: A Legal Web Site – News, Commentary, and Opinions on Law Firms, Lawyers, Law School, Law Suits, Judges and Courts

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The ABA Journal has provided several of the survey comments left by respondents:

  • “Females are harder on their female assistants, more detail oriented, and they have to try harder to prove themselves, so they put that on you. And they are passive aggressive where a guy will just tell you the task and not get emotionally involved and make it personal.”
  • “I just feel that men are a little more flexible and less emotional than women. This could be because the female partners feel more pressure to perform.”
  • “Female attorneys have a tendency to downgrade a legal secretary.”
  • “I am a female legal secretary, but I avoid working for women because [they are] such a pain in the ass! They are too emotional and demeaning.”
  • “Female attorneys are either mean because they’re trying to be like their male counterparts or too nice/too emotional because they can’t handle the stress. Either way, their attitude/lack of maturity somehow involves you being a punching bag.”
  • Women lawyers have “an air about them.”

And there you have it. The resounding theme in all of these comments seems to be the fact that women have emotions. Being a woman myself, I know that emotions that can make a woman go from zero to bitch in about 60 seconds. But this isn’t anything new. Women have been bitches since, well… forever. And women acting bitchy isn’t that big of a deal, because in reality, you’ve been dealing with bitchy behavior since you were in grade school.


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