Legal Commentary

Ring the Bell: Victoria Pynchon, author of the Settle It Now Negotiation Blog and the founder of the IP ADR Blog is asking all women bloggers, as well as women who are active on social networking sites such as Twitter, Linkedin, and Facebook, "to proclaim and celebrate March as Women's History Month."
   Pynchon, an attorney, mediator, and arbitrator with ADR Services in Century City, Calif., suggests you take a look at a sample proclamation. She is honoring Women's History Month by posting a series of articles about implicit gender bias on Settle It Now.
   Good timing, too, as today is International Women's Day. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama will host a reception today to mark the occasion. As the Chinese proverb says, "Women hold up half of the sky."

   While we're at it, today would be a really good day for men and women to go ask your boss if your organization is paying women equally to men for the good work we all do, so we can once and for all rid the legal profession of the unconscionable embarrasment of gender pay gaps.

Carpe diem.