{"id":3434,"date":"2018-02-27T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3434"},"modified":"2018-03-02T01:45:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T01:45:34","slug":"women-in-legal-are-least-satisfied-with-their-work-life-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/women-in-legal-are-least-satisfied-with-their-work-life-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Legal Are Least Satisfied With Their Work-Life Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-four percent of women in legal roles say they are satisfied with their work-life balance, the lowest of any department.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/54-are-you-satisfied-with-your-work-life-balance\">ongoing survey<\/a>\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\">Comparably<\/a> of 30,000 people in jobs across the tech sector.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up close by department<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After women in legal, the lowest rates were among\u00a0men and women in IT and operations. Workers with the highest view of their work-life balance are those in executive roles (76% of men and 72% of women say they are satisfied).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3439 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/adminr.jpg\" alt=\"adminr\" width=\"539\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/adminr-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/adminr.jpg 539w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 85vw, 539px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3441 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/ch.jpg\" alt=\"ch\" width=\"538\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/ch-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/ch.jpg 538w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 85vw, 538px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Women less satisfied overall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Overall, 69% of men and 65% of women are satisfied with their work-life balance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3435 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/GOGO.jpg\" alt=\"GOGO\" width=\"474\" height=\"61\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/GOGO-300x39.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/GOGO.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 85vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Age doesn&#8217;t appear to matter much<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The percentage of workers who are satisfied with their work-life balance doesn&#8217;t appear to change much across age groups.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3436 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/alal.jpg\" alt=\"alal\" width=\"373\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/alal-300x103.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/alal.jpg 373w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 373px) 85vw, 373px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seattle has the best work-life balance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seventy-four percent of workers in Seattle say they are satisfied with their work-life balance, the most of any city. San Francisco and Boston were close behind (72% and 70%). On the other end of the spectrum was Minneapolis, where 54% of people say they are satisfied with their work-life balance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3438 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/jf.jpg\" alt=\"jf\" width=\"487\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/jf-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/03\/jf.jpg 487w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 85vw, 487px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The results are as of Feb. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty-four percent of women in legal roles say they are satisfied with their work-life balance, the lowest of any department. That&#8217;s according to the latest reading of an ongoing survey\u00a0by Comparably of 30,000 people in jobs across the tech sector. Up close by department After women in legal, the lowest rates were among\u00a0men and women &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/women-in-legal-are-least-satisfied-with-their-work-life-balance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[49],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}