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Women solicitors twice more likely than men to cite work/life balance as reason for not pursuing partnership

updated on 19 March 2018

Women solicitors are less likely than men to pursue partnership at their firms, according to a career satisfaction survey of over 3,000 lawyers.

Legal recruitment firm Douglas Scott’s research also found that 40% of women respondents who decided not to pursue partnership cited work/life balance as the main factor in their decision, compared to just 20% of men. As Legal Futures reports, almost two thirds of respondents to the survey were women, with the majority aged 25-35.

The survey found that most respondents among men and women want to eventually become partners, but gender disparity is still in evidence – 79% of men aspired to partnership compared to 66% of women.  

However, overall job satisfaction was not exclusively tied to the prospect of making partner but was closely linked with whether the employee’s firm shares out bonuses, dividends or profit shares among staff. A third of the lawyers surveyed received a bonus, with only one in seven of these stating that they are looking to change jobs.

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