Stopping it is the other, delicate, half. Richards says the women she knows seem reluctant to raise their suspicions, fearing that their performance will be called into question and the issue will backfire. I have a family, I don't want to have the conversation about whether I'm a good partner or not, I make plenty of money, maybe not as much as my male counterparts, but enough. But she didn't stick around once she figured it out. Next week she starts work at a firm that is four times as large, with lots of women partners.
Life's too short.
And then there are the children issues. Of course women have a choice. Or they can have a baby, and deal with the fallout as it comes. That's the choice that Kelly Zotos made eight months ago. So committed was Zotos to having a baby and a career that she left her firm last year, in search of a company that would accept her new role as both a mother and a management consultant.