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Family Responsibilities Discrimination in Law Firms
At another law firm, when management discovered that Dawn Gallina, an associate, had a small child, a managing partner spoke to her about how women lawyers have extra work demands that are difficult to balance with a family. After she complained about being treated differently, the firm told Gallina to decide whether she wanted to be a 'successful mommy or a successful lawyer.'
Joann Trezza worked for over ten years in the legal department at a multinational company, moving from staff attorney to senior staff attorney. Nevertheless, when a managing attorney position became available, the company did not consider her for the position because her supervisors assumed that, because she had a family, she would not want to travel. An executive at the company told her that he did not see how working mothers could be both good workers and good mothers.
Sigmon, Gallina, and Trezza found out that sex-based stereotypes still play a role in workplace decisions and they responded by filing lawsuits in what has become one of the fastest growing areas of employment discrimination law: Family Responsibilities Discrimination ('FRD'). See Sigmon v. Parker Chapin Flattau & Klimpl, 901 F. Supp. 667 (S.D.N.Y. 1995); Gallina v. Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky & Popeo, P.C., 123 F. App'x 558 (4th Cir. 2005); Trezza v. The Hartford, Inc., 1998 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20206 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 30, 1998).
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