Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Welch's comments still resounding

On Friday, we posted to a ABA Journal article about Jack Welch and his comments that Women Take Time off at Their Peril.

You may want to revisit that article today--not because of anything that has been added to the article itself, but to the large number of people (190) who have posted on the website. And posted extensive thoughts.

These posts run the gamut of opinions. From people who agree with Welch:

What Welch is saying is just common sense.

A woman taking time off for the children is no different from a man taking time off for another worthy pursuit. It would be admirable for a man to take time off to, say, join a humanitarian aid mission in Sudan. And who’s to say that’s not more worthy than another business trip? But if he’s not there when the company needs him, they’ll turn to someone else who will get the reward.


To others who disagree:

Dear Jack,

Thanks for being a stand-up guy and for prospering off a sociological model that makes children the responsibility of women and then defending an economic/industrial model that does not promote those women when perform high caliber work yet undertake their parenting responsibility [which is the same parenting responsibility the male partners impose on their wives].

The posts get a little repetitive, but they give a sense of what a lot of lawyers are feeling on this subject. Although, as a warning, some may not want the sense that the posts give to be revealed.

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