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True Grit and a Growth MindsetTraits that Predict Success for Women in the Law
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Some bad stats for women in law… • For roughly 30 years, 50% of law school
graduates have been women, yet only 18% of law firm equity partners & 24% of general counsel are women.
• Despite the equal graduation rate between genders for three decades, 65% of actively practicing lawyers in the U.S. are men, and 35% are women.
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Some bad stats for women in law… • Only 27.1% of all judges in the U.S. are
women, with 72.9% being men (approximately 33% of federal court judges are women, and approximately 22% of state court judges are women).
• Across the U.S., the compensation of full-time, salaried women lawyers is 77.6% of their male counterparts.
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Some bad stats for women in law…
• A 2018 study found there is a 53% pay gap between female partners and male partners in BigLaw.
• Specifically, partners earned an average of: $627,000 female partners
$959,000 male partners
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Why is this happening…?
§ Overt Sexism
§ Unconscious Bias
§ Non-Meritocracy
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Grit & Growth Mindset have been shown to be the most dispositive factors
for women lawyers to succeed in overcoming these systemic injustices
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What is aGrowth Mindset?
What is Grit?
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Grit:perseverance and passion for long-term goals & the ability to maintain effort and interest over years despite adversity, failure, and plateaus in progress.
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Growth Mindset:the belief that intelligence & talent can be grown and developed through dedication and hard work, and that perseverance, persistence, and effort eventually pay off and lead to long-term success.
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An Interdependent Relationship
Growth Mindset
Grit
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An Interdependent Relationship
Success
Growth Mindset
Grit
Your “Resilient Zone”
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6 Essential Components of Grit
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And How To Adopt & EmbodyEach Component
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Cognitive Reframing: mentally frame challenges as opportunities for greatness/growth, rather than threats of failure 1
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Growth Mindset: detachment of self-esteem from outcomes, & purposeful growth through setbacks and failures2
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Internal Locus of Control: staunchly accept reality & adaptively respond to that reality3
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Deliberate Practice: consistent, uncomfortable long-term practice 4
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Mozart
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Compassion for Injustice: diffusing the palpable resentment & not conflating compassion with condonation 5
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Higher Purpose: connect your work to a purpose/meaning greater than yourself, and remember who you truly are 6
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Final Thought(before the break)
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SHARE – 2 minutes each person:
One of Your Career Highlights/Triumphs (anytime)
&One of Your Failures/Low-Points (3+ years ago)
Group Breakout Exercise
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Can you trace any later successes, growth, or benefits from the failure/low-point you shared?
Individual Journaling Exercise
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1) Cognitive Reframing of Challenges2) Purposeful Growth Through Setbacks3) Internal Locus of Control 4) Deliberate Practice5) Compassion for Injustice6) Higher Purpose
Think about a current challenge in your career or life that is active right now and apply at least two of the above grit components to this current challenge.
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Share the application of grit to the current challenge with your partner. Then your partner
will see if she can come up with one or two more for your situation. Then switch!
Dyad Exercise: Partner-up (in twos)
