The Legal Profession’s Gender Imbalance in a Chart

The American Bar Foundation has released new data about gender balance in the profession, or more accurately, the lack thereof.

Clearly, more women are entering the law as shown in the chart below.

[caption id="attachment_4621" align="alignnone” width="466"][Image “Gabe Friedman” (src=https://bol.bna.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Gender-Breakdown-by-Percentage.png)]Gabe Friedman/Source: National Lawyer Population Survey, American Bar Association.[/caption]

But even though the number of women entering the law has been steadily increasing in recent years, the percentage of women equity partners at the top 200 law firms has been flat for close to a decade, as the chart below shows:

[caption id="attachment_4623" align="alignnone” width="470"][Image “Gabe Friedman/Source: National Association of Women ...