The legal workplace is a high-demand job that requires a lot of sacrifice to achieve success. Lawyers work more than a standard forty-hour week and must sacrifice many aspects of their social life for their work. Mothers-in-law find work even more stressful and difficult to balance with home life because lawyers have high-demand jobs. Women lawyers must balance the demands of legal practice with the demands of their traditional gender roles on the farm. The legal workplace is unfortunately a victim of discrimination, whether the discrimination is a quid pro quo, a hostile work environment, or wrongful termination. However, the legal workplace is changing and adapting to a more gender-neutral working environment. Discrimination is taken more seriously, especially because women are part of a protected class under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Young women, teenagers, and children are encouraged from a young age to strive for success in the same state of men's minds. In other words, young women are not encouraged to become housewives. Independence is strongly encouraged. Finally, legal workplaces are redesigning their organizations to better accommodate women's specific needs, such as maternity leave. The legal workplace is evolving towards gender equality, raising awareness of discrimination, encouraging young women and implementing policies that support the specific needs of women. Women in the legal workplace have faced discrimination for many years due to the misconception that law is a man's job. Discrimination has received more attention in recent years. Discrimination in the workplace is a hot topic in employment law and policy making today. Employers are… halfway through… 11 July 2010. http://www.lawyersweekly.com.au/news/firms-increase-parental-leave (accessed 15 March 2012) .First order of the Bar of the City of New York, “Parental Leave Policies and Practices for Lawyers: Committee on Women in the Profession,” Bar Association of the City of New York, no. August (2007): 8-21, First Bar Association of the City of New York, “Parental Leave Policies and Practices for Lawyers: Committee on Women in the Profession,” Bar Association of the City of New York, no. August (2007): 8-21, Judith S. Kaye, “Women Lawyers in Big Firms: A Study in Progress Toward Gender Equality,” Fordham Law Review, 57, no. 1 (1988): 111-126, Carolyn McAllaster and Jennifer Brobst, “The North Carolina Association of Women Lawyers: Building Camaraderie, Cultivating Leaders, and Protecting Women's Rights,” The North Carolina State Bar Journal, no. Fall (2011): 15,