Law Students

Advice from the Author of "Ending the Gauntlet"

By Elizabeth

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly published an interesting interview with Lauren Stiller Rikleen, the author of Ending the Gauntlet: Removing Barriers to Women's Success in the Law. There's an interesting review of the book on Ms. JD here. To research her book, Rikleen, through interviews and research, identified many "misconceptions women have about work." The main misconception seems to be that women think "if they just come in, close their door, work hard and leave at the end of the day, that as long as they're doing good work, they will succeed." However, Rikleen maintains that success is about more than good work and that "doing good work is the baseline, the starting point; it's not the end point."

So what's the second step?

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Full post as published by Ms. JD on January 16, 2008 (boomark / email).