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That 2017 #look

On the other side of the dressy scale there was a 7 months pregnant lawyer sitting on the floor at IAD

At O’Hare there was a lawyer who was about five minutes away from giving birth sitting there in her sweatpants with a sign that said “I’m a lawyer and I speak Hindi/Urdu”. Just her and her sign and supersized tea from McDonalds. 

I’ll say it again. MOSTLY WOMEN.

Why does their being mostly women matter?

Because, statistically speaking, 64% of lawyers in the United States are men, meaning that the majority of the demographic showing up should reflect this.
It is also interesting to note that only 27% of American born lawyers are female- that means that a lot of these women are likely immigrants or foreign born.
We have a majority of women showing up in a field where they are a minority; women who dropped everything to help defend human rights and the country.
There’s no cis-male equivalency to pregnancy, but if you fail to see the importance and stength of a woman who might feasibly go into labour at any second still standing up for what is right and good whilst the majority of politicians are cowering, then I can’t help you.

Why most of the lawyers you see battling Trump’s immigration order are women

I wouldn’t know where to look for such a study, but I would quite like to see someone run some numbers on the average number of pro-bono cases taken on per annum by male and female lawyers working in the same fields…

Librarian side of Tumblr?  Here’s your cue!

I don’t know if there are more recent studies, but in 2015 the National Association of Women Lawyers found a discrepancy. Not only do women book more pro bono hours, they book less paid hours – but still work more hours in general.

The typical female equity partner bills only 78 percent of what a typical male equity partner bills. When asked to report total client billable and non-billable hours, however, the total hours for women equity partners exceeded the total hours for men equity partners. The median hours reported for the women were 2,224 and, for the men, were 2,198.

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Specifically, the typical female equity partner’s median client-billable hours were 1,545, compared to the typical male equity partner’s median client-billable hours of 1,571; median annual pro bono hours were reported as 13.5 and 12, respectively.

Which if I’m reading right means women lawyers, at least in the AmLaw 100, are working more overall hours than men, doing more community good, and still making less money.