The gender pay gap defies all expectation in its persistence—but we needn’t accept it, and we can begin to fix it. But doing so will require new thinking and a focus on the fundamentals. And in law, as elsewhere in business, one of those fundamentals is money.
December 13, 2018 at 02:35 PM
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It’s disheartening to learn from recent reporting on Major, Lindsey & Africa’s 2018 Partner Compensation Survey that the gender pay gap in law is not only stubbornly persistent—it’s actually getting worse.
Yes, you read that correctly. Even in 2018, following decades of effort to increase gender equity in law, and even in the high stakes business culture of the #MeToo era, male Big Law partners today earn on average 53 percent more than women. In 2010, the gap stood at 32 percent.
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