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The advancement of women in the legal profession is increasing little by little. The number of women in the legal profession is very little and the progress is moving very slowly, but they believe it will get there one day. To prove this, some women have taken the steps to starting their own law firm where only women are present. In the article, “Women’s History Month: Cracking The Glass Ceiling One Client At A Time”, two high powered litigators walked away from a high-powered firm and started their own firm and their means were to break the glass ceiling. Women do not hold nearly as many high end positions as men, but they are trying and eventually they will get there. Women are working very hard towards their masters and their PhD’s and although it is not paying off now, it eventually will. In the article, “Women’s History Month: Closing In On Office Gender Gap” by Rebecca Spitz, she states, “Continuing a trend that started in the 1980’s, women are taking on a larger role in the working world. “Increasingly as women have become more educated they’ve wanted to earn salaries to contribute to the family,” says Sheila Wellington, a professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business. “As opportunities open up, women have wanted to be part of that upward movement.”


Although advances like starting their own businesses and raising the numbers of female attorneys in firms and higher positions in firms are being made, women still face a lot of challenges as well. Women need to put themselves out their more, they need to bargain for more and in the end they will most likely get it. A lot of women are taken advantage of simply because they are women; they are not given everything they should be given because people do not think they deserve it or can handle it and that needs to change.