Gender Gap for Female Experts Won’t Be Easily Narrowed

An astonishing 80 percent of expert witnesses chosen by attorneys are male, and those male experts get paid on average 60 percent more than their female counterparts, according to data from The Expert Institute in New York, a leading provider of expert witnesses.

Some of the predominantly male attorneys hiring these experts may be biased.

Others may believe that hiring female experts will put them at a competitive disadvantage when they appear before jurors with outdated views on gender roles, according to judges, attorneys, service providers, and professors interviewed by Bloomberg BNA.

Either way, the problem is serious and the ...