4 Ways to Reduce the Legal Industry’s Gender Divide (Bloomberg Law)
Bloomberg Law, October 20, 2016
4 Ways to Reduce the Legal Industry’s Gender Divide
“Two reports over the past week have pointed attention to the legal industry’s gender parity problem. First, a report from Major Lindsey & Africa that surveyed more than 2,100 law partners showed a 44 percent pay gap between men and women. Then, the New York City Bar Association released data from 75 law firms that illustrated lackluster progress on the gender divide: In 2015, women made up 19.7 percent of those firms partners, up only slightly from 19.4 percent in 2014. ‘In 20 years, we would be 30 percent women partners, if we keep going at this pace,’ said Gabrielle Lyse Brown, director of diversity and inclusion of the New York City Bar Association, as she presented the group’s findings at an event in Manhattan on Thursday.”
