Women Lawyers Facing Challenges
Although the law has been a powerful force in advancing the rights of women, the practice of law continues to suffer from many of the same shortcomings as our society at large in failing to value and empower women. Thus women lawyers often face unique stresses as members of the profession, over and above those inherent in practicing law.
Excellent self-care, connection and support from other women and women lawyers, and connecting with a larger sense of meaning and purpose are all helpful in addressing these stresses. Below are some resources that you may also find helpful.
Some Resources for Women Lawyers:
Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women’s Success in the Law, by Lauren Stiller Rikleen.
The Women’s Comfort Book: A Self-Nurturing Guide for Restoring Balance in Your Life, by Jennifer Louden
The Connecticut Bar Association’s Women and the Law Committee.
The American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession.
Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers-Connecticut, Inc., an IRS Sec. 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation created pursuant to C.G.S. Sec. 51-81d to provide crisis intervention and referral services to the Connecticut legal community.
Workshops offered:
Balancing Your Life
A Personal and Professional Development Workshop for Women Lawyers.
Justice, the ancient symbol of the law, is a woman. One of her many gifts through the ages has been her ability to balance – as shown by her omnipresent scales.
Yet too often women lawyers, the embodied heiresses of Justice, find their lives are out of balance. How can this balance be regained, maintained or perhaps even acquired in the first place?
In this one day workshop, we will create space and time for each woman to learn how to create greater balance in her life.
Focus will be on the following:
- Developing mental and emotional balance with mindfulness practices.
- Increasing resilience by strengthening attitudes such as abundance and gratitude.
- Reconciling idealism and disillusionment with the law and legal practice.
- Empowering aspects of the female and the feminine in legal practice and life.
- Removing Justice’s blindfold: developing a balanced vision of life.
Call for dates or to schedule a workshop for your group or firm.
Karen Caffrey, LPC, JD Psychotherapy and Counseling in West Hartford, CT 06107