Topic
Gender Gap
98 published works
Sports Law Expert
Study Finds Gender Disparities in Esports Viewership and Prize Money
By Holt Hackney
A new academic study examining professional Counter-Strike esports competitions found that female players receive fewer views and earn less prize money than male players, even after accounting for measures of…
Law and Other Things
Unrecognised Status, Visible Struggles, Over-Arching Patriarchy: ASHA Workers and a Quest for Identity | Part – 1
By Palak Bothra, Bratati Lahiri
Introduction Accredited Social Health Activists (“ASHAs”), primarily women, are recruited under the National Health Mission (“NHM”) directly by the government. They are clothed as ‘honorary volunteers’, and thus conveniently excluded…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
The Gender Gap Among IPO Lawyers
By Afra Afsharipour, Kristina Bishop, Matthew Jennejohn
Capital markets work is among the most profitable areas of transactional legal practice, and it is typically awarded to lawyers within a tight network. Perhaps the most elite of those…
Legal Research and Analysis
UNDERSTANDING GENDER INEQUALITY : AN ANALYSIS
UNDERSTANDING GENDER INEQUALITY : AN ANALYSIS Author (s) Piya Chakraborty Full Text PDF Download Table of Contents Introduction Gender inequality in the social phenomenon in which people are not treated…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Falling Down Hard: The Gender Gap in Executive Turnover
By Charles J. Hadlock, Paul Obermann, Joshua R. Pierce
The underrepresentation of women in the top executive ranks of U.S. corporations is well-documented. Less understood is what happens after women reach the C-suite: Do they keep these jobs as…
Other
Highlighting efforts to fill a gender gap in second-look sentencing reform efforts
The New York Times has this notable new article about second-look sentencing reform efforts in the states. The full headline highlights the article's themes: "Prison Reform Left Women Behind. Then…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Study Shows Gender Gap in Class Counsel in Multidistrict Litigation
By Tracy Thomas
Alissa Del Riego, The Class Counsel Draft Gender Gap: An Analysis of Class Counsel Applicants The vast multidistrict litigation (“MDL”) and class counsel gender gap has caused much alarm in the…
The CLS Blue Sky Blog
Founding While Female: Are There Gender Disparities in Startup Governance?
By Jens Frankenreiter, Talia Gillis, Eric Talley
Venture capital is widely perceived to have a gender problem. Founders seeking capital and investors themselves are overwhelmingly male, fomenting concerns about how – and how fairly – the VC…
Canadian Lawyer Mag
International Bar Association releases report on gender disparity in the Dutch legal profession
The report is the fifth in a series on gender disparity across the global legal profession
Family Law Prof Blog
Life Expectancy
By Family Law
From CNN:Women in the United States can expect to live nearly six years longer than men, as disparities in deaths from Covid-19 and drug overdoses drive the life expectancy gap…