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Let's all face reality. A substantial number of women - and far, far fewer men - take several years out of their careers - usually from shortly before the first child is born until they are are at school. Some choose to and some, alas, ahve no choice; but they do it.

When they want to come back they may no longer live near the firm they were in: for some years where they lived will have depended on the exisgencies of another's career.

Or the firm may have moved.

Or its balance of work may have moved; litigation is on the decline and the hot-shot litigator who left eight or nine years again may just not be needed.

But if she can and does come back she will have that many fewer years of experience than her colleagues who stayed put, male or female, and you cannot pretend she has been doing what she has not. She may never make up the difference and there is no reason to suggest that it is unfair if she does not.

Not a popular point of view, but then the truth often isn't!

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