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On Saturday, October 2, 2021, before the United States Supreme Court reconvenes for its October term, the people of San Diego will join marchers across the nation who are taking to the street and demanding women’s right to reproductive healthcare be protected.
Born in the mid-2010s, the “girlboss” was a female business leader, who shattered the glass ceiling despite years of underestimation. I did not think much of it—and admittedly, wanted to be one—until recently.
Know your worth, and—no matter how scary that may be—never accept less. The rewards are priceless.
Although I empathized with those juggling working from home and family duties, and understood the societal need to quarantine, messages of support for people who lived alone were lacking. I happened to live alone during that time, and, as many of you know, it was incredibly lonely and isolating. It made me realize just how important in-person social interactions and human connections are to our overall emotional and physical health.
Yesterday – nine months into the year – was #NativeWomensEqualPayDay. This means that Native American women had to work until September 8, 2021, to earn what their white, non-Hispanic male colleagues earned on average in 2020—that is 60 cents for every dollar. This equates to more than $24,000 per year and $1 million over a 40-year career.
On Wednesday, September 1, 2021, in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, 594 U.S. ____ (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court declined to act on an emergency request to stop Senate Bill 8 (S.B. 8), effectively ending Roe v. Wade in the state of Texas.
The devastating situation in Afghanistan has underscored the risk of harm that Afghan women attorneys, judges, journalists, and women’s rights advocates have always faced.1 Despite those risks, these women worked from within to advance women’s rights in Afghanistan. And their advocacy worked: during the prior Taliban regime that fell 20 years ago, there were no women judges in Afghanistan.2 Today, there are approximately 270.
Like many of you, I have been consumed by thoughts of the disturbing human rights situation currently unfolding in Afghanistan. I have read many stories of professional women—attorneys, judges, journalists, women’s rights advocates, and other professionals—who are now at risk of being killed, tortured, or imprisoned. There are approximately 270 women judges in Afghanistan, many of whom are now in the process of burning records of their decades-long careers in order to avoid imprisonment or death.1
As your president, I have been deeply honored and humbled for the privilege to share messages with you since July 1, 2020 in a year like no other for each of us and for Lawyers Club. Together we have lived through a global pandemic and also witnessed an increase in awareness of the inequities for women and people of color to heights not seen for decades. And we saw women continue to shatter glass ceilings when the first woman—a woman of color became Vice President of the United States.
Wealth management for female lawyers will have specific challenges in 2021. With the help of a financial planner, understand the impact that the coronavirus pandemic had on finances in 2020.
