Unit D Blog #29

I believe that so few minority women stay with law firms because of the cases that they get assigned. These women often face biases and when a case comes in dealing with a person of the same ethnic background of the female lawyer, often times they are stuck working on this case. The bosses of the law firms see the female lawyer and her race and say "Well we just had a case dealing with an African American, lets put her on the case because she is black as well so she can relate with the defendant." Stories from NPR have shown us that women are often scrutinized for their race and this goes a long way in creating a reason for a female lawyer to want to leave the law firm all together and find a job elsewhere. The women in these positions are sick and tired of being genderized and stereotypes into a certain category simply because of the color of their skin. These women want to move past the judgments of their gender and race and be treated in the same way. As of now, these females are subject to racial jokes, among other things that really begin to hurt from their male counterparts. Nobody would want to stay at a job where they face this extreme amount of bias, and these women, like anyone else in the same position, have decided that enough is enough and they have began to move on from these jobs where the treatment is unfair. If we hope to have equality in our work place then we need to fix the unjust aspects of these jobs right away.