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Gender Gap
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Legal Profession Blog
Michelson on Gender Inequality in China’s Legal Profession
Posted by Alan ChildressNew to SSRN is this paper by Ethan Michelson of Indiana-Bloomington's departments of sociology and East Asian studies: "Gender Inequality in the Chinese Legal Profession." Its abstract:In…
Sentencing Law and Policy
A better example of sex-offense plea deal gender disparity?
Main October 2, 2008A better example of sex-offense plea deal gender disparity?I noted here earlier this week a report about a federal sex offense case in which prosecutors allowed a…
The Legal Watercooler
Let’s Have Some CONSTRUCTIVE Anger
In our busy days watching the markets, tracking the comings and goings at Heller (well, goings, anyhow), headlines like this, Pay Inequity for Women Paralegals, often get missed, but headlines…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Gender Gap in Retirement Savings
Business Week has an article on a new Employee Benefit Research Institute study, which documents a persistent gender gap in retirement savings--both rates of saving and amounts of savings. The…
Nonprofit Law Prof Blog
International Womens Day
Last Saturday, March 8, was International Womens Day (a day that has been observed since the early 1900's) which prompts us to reflect on the goals of the Convention on…
Media Law Prof Blog
Gender Gap Remains in UK Newsrooms
The Guardian reports that a new survey released by the Fawcett Society, a UK based nonprofit, concludes that a gender gap remains in the media business in the UK. The…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Inequities and uncertainties in federal death penalty
Main November 29, 2007Inequities and uncertainties in federal death penaltyAs we move into the third month of the Baze-ian moratorium on executions created by the Supreme Court, I continue to…
Legal Profession Blog
Lawyer Career Tracks, Disparities, and Other Stats in Western PA
Over on Empirical Legal Studies blog, William Henderson (Indiana) posted this interesting summary of the Allegheny County Bar Association's comprehensive study and survey of its members. It echoes some great…