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Gender Gap
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Labor Law Prof Blog
Women in the Legal Profession: More Bad News
The 2012 Report of the National Association of Women Lawyers paints, yet again, a bleak picture of the status of women in the legal profession. Here, via Above the Law,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases”
Main September 11, 2012"Estimating Gender Disparities in Federal Criminal Cases" The title of this post is the title of this great-looking new paper by Sonja Starr, which is now available…
Sentencing Law and Policy
NotableSlatepiece on gender disparities in sex crime sentencing
Main May 17, 2012Notable Slate piece on gender disparities in sex crime sentencingLast week in this post I discussed an Arizona case in which a female teacher's aide got a…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Gender Disparity on Power Rules
Bill Henderson has a terrific post over at The Legal Whiteboard on the gendered expectations about powerful people. Here's an excerpt:A just released study by the Yale Law Women documents…
EvidenceProf Blog
When Innocence Is Pink: Why There Is A Gender Gap In Exonerations Of The Wrongfully Convicted And Efforts That Might Shrink It
By Colin Miller
There are over 60 innocence projects nationwide, and they do tremendous work. According to the Cardozo Innocence Project website, "There have been 271 post-conviction DNA exonerations in United States history." The Innocence…
The Venture Alley
Why Fewer Female Entrepreneurs?
By DLA Piper
Lesa Mitchell, VP of Advancing Innovation with the Kauffman Foundation, has an interesting piece out today: Women Entrepreneurs Are Trapped Within Glass Walls. In it she discusses the gender gap in…
Family Law Prof Blog
Global Gender Gap Report 2010
By Family Law
The Global Gender Gap Report 2010 was recently released; read it here.MR
Labor Law Prof Blog
Dukes v. Wal-Mart: New Evidence that Wal-Mart Knew of Gender Disparities in Mid-90s
Steven Greenhouse has an article in the New York Times Thursday about a new development in the Dukes v. Wal-Mart class action--a confidential report was leaked to the Times. Apparently,…
Family Law Prof Blog
Monopoli: “Marriage, Property and [In]Equality: Remedying Erisa’s Disparate Impact on Spousal Wealth”
By Family Law
Paula Monopoli (University of Maryland School of Law) has posted "Marriage, Property and [In]Equality: Remedying Erisa's Disparate Impact on Spousal Wealth," Yale Law Journal Online, Vol. 119, p. 61-65 on SSRN. …
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Gender Disparities in Medical Care for Immigrant Detainees
The medical care system in US immigration detention is dangerously inadequate, with unique consequences for women, and improving health care for immigration detainees should be a top priority for the…