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Published: March 27, 2016
Updated: March 28, 2016 at 05:57 AM
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In fact, the survey found 43 percent of respondents saying they’d experienced gender bias in their career and 42 percent said they had difficulties maintaining a balance between work and their private lives.
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It also comes at a time when women are growing as a percentage of attorneys in the state. Women make up 37 percent of the total Florida Bar membership, but 48 percent of the Young Lawyers Division, which includes all lawyers under age 36.
Coincidentally, the American Bar Association reported last week that female lawyers earn 77 percent of what male lawyers make.
The Florida Bar random survey of more than 400 young female lawyers found 21 percent felt they were not paid the same as male counterparts.
More than 25 percent of respondents to the survey said they resigned from a position because of a lack of advancement opportunities, a lack of work-life balance and/or insensitivity from supervisors, and 42 percent said they had trouble balancing work and personal life responsibilities.
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