We need more women lawyers to achieve equality, though the field is definitely choked right now overall. There's no reason that further advances can't be made in offering family-friendly policies, as is already occurring in greater measure all the time. We're not talking about Navy SEALs here, and some of the best lawyers I know work from home a fair amount of the time anyway.
Behind a lot of men who "sacrifice everything" are women who stay at home, taking care of the household and enabling the man to go out and earn. In an era when alimony awards occur less and less, it continues to be a major justification in many awards for stay-at-home mothers today that they contributed to their husbands' professional careers. There may be more bachelor workaholics out there than bachelorettes, but I wouldn't know and think it is bound to be a secondary phenomenon.
