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What happens to all the female lawyers?

Mar 21 2006 by Brian Amble
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Why do so few women reach the top of big law firms, asks the New York Times.

Although the nation's law schools for years have been graduating classes that are almost evenly split between men and women, and although firms are absorbing new associates in numbers that largely reflect that balance, something unusual happens to most women after they begin to climb into the upper tiers of law firms. They disappear.

….Even those who have made it to the top of their profession say that the data shows that women's legal careers involve distinct, often insurmountable hurdles and that those hurdles remain misunderstood or underexamined

New York Times | Why Do So Few Women Reach the Top of Big Law Firms?

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