About half of all law students, including at top schools, are women. But most applicants for academic jobs, and most hires, are men. Why? Prawfsblawg is having a discussion.
UPDATE: Christine Hurt of the Conglomerate suggests that married women are on the average the “second earners in households” and therefore are less geographically mobile than are men, a real problem in a national market like law teaching. On the other hand, legal writing faculty, generally hired locally, are predominately women.
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