Dr Olivarius writes about Rhodes Scholar women lawyers in Bloomberg Law

Dr Olivarius writes in Bloomberg Law about concrete steps for increasing the role of women in major law firms.

After discussing the paucity of women partners in Big Law, and their lower average salaries, Dr Olivarius wrote:

“I can back up these grim figures from my own research on the lives and careers of Rhodes Scholars, a side project I started some years ago to study the leadership gap in all professions. Women were first admitted to the Rhodes in 1977; I was elected the following year. Since then, in the legal profession, male scholars have made partner each decade at two and three times the rate of the women.”

“In the 1990s, for another data point, half as many of the men proportionally went into teaching law—yet they were promoted twice as often to senior roles. Among the 2000s cohort, the ratio of male-to-female scholars selected for judicial clerkships was three-to-one.”

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