ABA Journal: Research shows attorney gender gap is not due to discrimination‏

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2009-05-20 16:11

Via Marc A.: Story here. A recent ABA Journal article addresses new research showing it is the choice of pausing career to care for kids, not one's sex, that causes the gender gap in law firms. This coincides with what Warren Farrell's explains in his book, "Why Men Earn More" and what other research confirms about the "pay gap."

If we really want to remove the gap, we need to encourage women to allow men to be primary parents. Excerpt:

'NEW YORK (Reuters) - They may be a small minority in corporate boardrooms, but women directors typically earn more than men, a new U.S. study has found.

Female directors in corporate America earned median compensation of $120,000, based on the most recently available pay data, compared with $104,375 for male board members, research group The Corporate Library said in its annual director pay report on Wednesday.

At the same time, the study said, women in corporate boardrooms are outnumbered eight to one.'

The final report is here (.pdf file).

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Men are judged on status for mate value. Money is the chief proxy for status and the way to make money is to work.

No matter how much we encourage men to be active parents, in the long run they will still work sixty hour weeks. Increased parenting time will be an additional burden, not a replacement for hours spent at the office.

It's sort of like cajoling women to go into sports or engineering. It goes against the grain.

This is not a 'cultural' issue, but is instead one of biology.

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Thu, 2009-05-21 12:24