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Work-Life Imbalance: Pandemic Disruption Places New Stresses on Women Lawyers


By Cynthia L. Cooper
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During the evenings in September 2020, Kimberly Mauer, a partner in finance at Cincinnati-based Frost Brown Todd LLC, retreated to her basement. There, she painted dozens of curvy wooden hearts in the blue color of the firm’s logo. Mauer, chair of the Women’s Initiative Committee of the 525-lawyer firm, had already convened “Parents with Children” chats, after COVID-19 closures sent lawyers home to work remotely and children home to learn remotely. “It’s been a huge burden for them, emotionally and psychologically,” Mauer says. The chats drew women and men in a two-to-one ratio, and Mauer arranged for 120 blue hearts, complete with a bow and note, to go out to all. “One woman told me she got the heart and cried,” Mauer notes. ....

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