Ten Reasons Why Gender Inequality Is Ok

The job of the Legal System is to ensure equality right? I guess it makes sense then why women are still getting the short end of the stick when it comes to their employment in the Legal System

1. Because the number of Women in Law School is equal to that of Men.

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"For the first time, the number of women entering law school was
substantially equivalent to the number of men."

Steven K. Berenson

2. Because Women are equally represented in Law Firms across America

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"Yet according to a recent American Lawyer survey of the top 200 law
firms, women make up only 17% of the partners at the firms surveyed."

Theresa M. Beiner

3. Because Men and Women have the same equity status

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"Of those women partners who work at firms with multi-tier partnerships, only 45% of them have equity status. This compares to 62% of male partners having equity status."

Theresa M. Beiner

4. Because Women stay in their Partnerships in Firms as often as Men do

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"Even women who had “made it,” i.e., who had become partners, were more likely to leave their partnerships than male partners—15% of women partners left, whereas only 1% of men did."

Theresa M. Beiner

5. Because Women are treated the same when they decide to start a family

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"72% of women surveyed said that their career commitment was questioned when they gave birth to or adopted a child, whereas only 15% of men of color and 9% of white men responded yes to this."

Theresa M. Beiner

6. Because Women are as equally likely to serve as Judges when compared to Men

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"As of 2002, approximately 28% of the judges on state courts of last resort were women, and 23% of the judges on state intermediate appellate courts were women."

Steven K. Berenson

7. Because Women are treated the same as Men in the Courtroom

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"One report found that 15% of all attorneys had witnessed a judge engage in sexual harassment with a female attorney, primarily taking the form of inappropriate sexual comments."

Hannah Brenner

8. Because Women have better job security than Men

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"Even when controlling for the much larger number of women attorneys in part-time
positions, from 2008 to 2010 women were fired from these positions in
greater proportions than men."

Carroll Seron

9. Because Women are extremely likely to be apart of the top firms in the United States

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"Among all [female] lawyers in the United States, for example, only 9% work in the top 250 firms."

Hannah Brenner

10. Because Female Attorneys make as much as their Male counterparts

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"There is a significant gender gap in salary of almost $6,000, with women
reporting a mean salary of $90,527 and men $96,486."

Dinovitzer, Reichman, and Sterling