At least once a year, a woman business owner contacts me to lament the handling of her divorce (attorneys for these women were equally male and female). Most of these women are bitter, disillusioned and sure the legal system is working against them in just getting good representation, forget the results, which are often not satisfactory.

I do not hear this conversation from my male business acquaintances or friends. Perhaps they are just as disillusioned about the legal system as pertains to divorce. I suspect I am like a lot of us and think these are isolated cases and how bad can it truly be? However, if I am averaging almost 1 complaint per year, and if we truly all do have networking circles of 250 acquaintances, there must be dozens more women (and men) who are are facing this difficulty -- and who are going into debt handling what ought to be a simple legal process, although obviously an emotional one.

Is this a taboo subject? Shouldn’t business be talking? Surely this affects the bottom line. It was not so long ago we did not openly talk about mental illness or battering or postpartum depression. Is this different?