Topic
Gender Gap
98 published works
Canadian Lawyer Mag
Why are more women leaving their jobs than men?
Research reveals glaring disparities
Canadian Lawyer Mag
IBA Women Lawyers Committee launches toolkit to close gender gap in the legal profession
Toolkit guides law firms in establishing a mentorship program
Health Law Prof Blog
Ageism and Gender
Alan Gutterman (Older Persons' Rights Project), Ageism and Gender, SSRN (2021):According to estimates based on data compiled and analyzed by the World Bank, the global population of women aged 65…
Southern California Appellate News
Persistent SCOTUS Gender Gap
The NYT has Adam Liptak's The Persistent Gender Gap at the Supreme Court LecternIn the term that ended in June, just 18 percent of arguments were presented by women, according…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Stereotypes, Sexism, and Superhuman Faculty
By Jamie Abrams
Teneille R. Brown has posted Stereotypes, Sexism, and Superhuman Faculty on SSRN. This article is a preprint of a work forthcoming in volume 16 of the Florida International Law Review. This is…
Simple Justice
Short Take: Students Choose Between False Options
In a column about the gender gap, Thomas Edsall includes a deeply disconcerting statistic. While liberal and left identification among female students reached a high in 2016, male students remained…
Southern California Appellate News
Leaking (gender) pipeline?
The ABA just released a report titled How Unappealing: An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap among Appellate Attorneys, which concludes:Despite a strong pipeline of talented women attorneys, men outnumber…
Family Law Prof Blog
Cahn’s Review of Damaske
By Family Law
From Family Law JOTWELL: Sarah Damaske, The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America (2021).In the early days of the pandemic, the unemployment rate reached close to…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
It’s Not About Leaning In. Negotiation Will Not Fix Sexism
By Tracy Thomas
Andrea Schneider, Indisputably, Negotiation Will Not Fix SexismLet’s start with the obvious–it pains me to realize that negotiation can’t fix everything. As someone who loves to teach negotiation–and has long…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Study Shows Restricting Prosecutorial Discretion on Racial and Gender Disparities Reduced Gender Gap of Men Being More Likely than Women to Receive Sentence Enhancements
By Tracy Thomas
Andy Yuan & Spencer Cooper, Racial, Gender Disparities and Prosecutorial Discretion: Evidence from Blakely v. Washington We investigate the causal effects of restricting prosecutorial discretion on racial and gender disparities. Blakely…