Monday, May 10, 2021

Gender gap in SCOTUS advocates

Bloomberg Law has Men Repeat at Lectern—Firms, U.S. Drive Supreme Court Gender Gap noting: Women argued 18% of cases this term (since 2011 that figure has fluctuated between 12% and 22%); five individual men argued 13% of cases' men outnumbered women advocates 125 to 28; for first-time advocates, 11 were women and 37 were men. "The Supreme Court bar is overwhelmingly white and male."