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Waltman is active across a breadth of organizations campaigning for greater gender diversity in the law. She shares her personal approach, and that of CBS, to moving the dial on all areas of diversity in the legal profession.
Diversity means having people of diverse culture, experiences, and backgrounds in all levels of the workplace, and making sure that those people feel invested and included. I got involved because it’s something that I feel passionate about. If you look at the research, women lawyers make up almost 50% of law firm associates and then, by the time you get to partnership, it’s about 20%. And if you look at racial and ethnic diversity, the numbers are even worse. So, I think that, as a senior lawyer and woman in the law, it’s important to help the next generation of women lawyers succeed.
I have tried to do that in a variety of ways, including mentoring women, connecting women with one another, and speaking at conferences and on panels about diversity and my own career journey. I’ve also spent a lot of time volunteering with organizations whose mission is to foster and promote the advancement of women in the law – for example, I am the deputy global chair of in-house counsel for the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF).
