The New York State Bar Association House of Delegates voted on Saturday to overwhelmingly approve a task force report finding that major gender disparities persist in courtrooms all across the state.

The study, which is based on questionnaires from New York state and federal judges who documented the gender of lawyers who spoke and appeared before them during a four-month period, built on a similar effort in 2017 that found women attorneys to be significantly underrepresented as lead counsel in criminal and civil litigation.