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Women have made great advances within the legal field over the past years but still the number are quite lower than that of males in the legal field. Woman had to work hard to be seen as equals amongst their coworkers. Woman have also had to over comes issues as woman can’t openly express their femininity by wearing lip stick or lip gloss in a courtroom, or wearing their down (unlike some of the older movies where women in the legal profession dressed in the square business attire and wore their hair up often times in a bun in order to look more professional and be taken more serious.) Women moved away from the square business attire and wore clothing with more colors that more closely expressed their individual style. Woman have conquered a career that was quite male dominant for sometime and been successful in doing so. Before women who did seek a profession in the legal field often times at some point have to choose between her career or a family giving up one for the other and yet today many women have shown that it is possible to have both. A great example of this is the law firm that was started by two women and to this day consists of only women. Although it has been a benefit to be able to work along side women who have to deal with some of the same issues that may come up in your life, it has also been hard to build a steady clientele and reassure possible new clientele of their ability to be assertive and strong and able to get the job done without the backing of male partners.