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: novalawcityWomen in the Law 2008
The ABA's Commission on Women in the Profession has published A Current Glance at Women in the Law 2008. The pie charts and graphs give an overview of the percentage of women's involvement in all areas of the profession, from their enrollment in law school to career paths in corporate, academic and judicial fields of practice. While most of the charts reflect only the year 2008, the comparison of women's vs men's weekly salaries spans seven years. The bad news: women still make considerably less than men. The good news: the percentage improved between 2002 and 2008. Women's salaries were 69.4% of men's in 2002, while by 2008 the percentage had risen to 77.5%. Let's see - if this trend continues, we should see salary parity by the year 2032...
Thanks to Sabrina Pacifici's beSpacific post for the heads-up on this publication.
Full post as published by novalawcity on May 05, 2009 (boomark / email).
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