Harvard Study: Wage Gap for Women Worsened Over 30 Years

It’s well-known that women in nearly every sector earn less than their male peers, but in the legal profession the gap appears to actually have grown starting in 1975.

That news comes froman empirical studyconducted by Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession, which Big Law Business wrote about earlier .

It surveyed Harvard Law School alumni from four separate graduating classes — 1975, 1985, 1995 and 2000 — and drew on other research to put forward a number of arresting findings, including thatwomen report working more hours than men even as they remain underrepresented in leadership positions. ...