December 15, 2000

What Stymies Women's Academic Careers? It's Personal

By Joan Williams

Last December, I was on the Metroliner, preparing for a talk on work-and-family issues that I was to give to the Harvard Law School Association of Greater Philadelphia. Looking through an alumni directory that lists what the members of my law-school class at Harvard were doing 15 years after graduation, I learned that 51 men, but only 8 women, had reported both being partners in a law firm and having children. The percentage of men reporting both was twice as high as that of women.

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