Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, which has one of the lowest percentages of female partners (12%) of a City firm, gave a hint at its views about a woman’s place by choosing to celebrate yesterday’s International Women’s Day with a gender stereotype-affirming bake-off.
Freshfields' female lawyers yesterday
To commemorate the achievements of women through the ages, and campaign for fairer attitudes towards gender in the future, the magic circle law firm asked its lawyers to do what women were seen as best at in the pre-Suffragette era: bake cakes at home.
The lawyers then brought the cakes into the office where they were judged by a panel of experts, including London managing partner Mark Rawlinson.