4 Ways to Reduce the Legal Industry’s Gender Divide

Two reports over the past week have pointed attention to the legal industry’s gender parity problem. First, a report from Major Lindsey & Africa that surveyed more than 2,100 law partners showed a 44 percent pay gap between men and women. Then, the New York City Bar Association released data from 75 law firms that illustratedlackluster progress on the gender divide: In 2015, women made up 19.7 percent of those firms partners, up only slightly from 19.4 percent in 2014.

“In 20 years, we would be 30 percent women partners, if we keep going at this pace,” said Gabrielle Lyse ...