Non-retirement attrition, ranging from medical leave and family moves to departures for other districts, states, or
out of the profession entirely, is an even larger factor — typically accounting for two - thirds of teachers who leave.
Let's really be direct and talk about caregiving roles and what I call the double binder, I don't call it that, it's been called that before, the double bind which is this sort of pressure to be a great worker, pressure to be very successful in your profession, and then this pressure to be very successful as a mother, a caregiver, a spouse and how that creates this situation that could be a bit of a pressure cooker and for many women they find I think that there's just often pressure to move out of either a type of legal profession or move
out of the profession entirely in order to meet the pressure that is placed on so many moms.
Not exact matches
And aside from any real prejudice, the historical record
of medicine as a male - dominated
profession can drive women physicians and physician - scientists to perceive bias, push themselves too hard — and burn
out much earlier than their male colleagues, or sacrifice their careers in part or
entirely.
The legal media (including legal blogs) are full
of stories
of high levels
of attrition, lawyer burn -
out, and general malaise in the
profession, but I do not think it is
entirely pervasive.
What is clear from these contrasting views
of the legal
profession is that, while the future
of law may turn
out to be as predicted in the CBA report, the legal market can not be driven
entirely by the so - called demand - side «value proposition.»
Alice Woolley has already considered this question elsewhere and has pointed
out that the fact that the Canadian legal
profession is provincially regulated gives rise to serious cost and practical issues: a number
of provinces and territories simply do not seem to have sufficient lawyer populations to justify putting an
entirely new regulatory body into place to operate alongside the courts and the law societies.
She had effectively «opted
out»
of working in the
profession entirely, one
of the unfortunate outcomes we already see for far too many young lawyers.