The Appellate Gender Gap Is Even Worse In Civil Cases
The numbers aren't great.
Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
According to the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession’s new report, “How Unappealing: An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap among Appellate Attorneys,” what percentage of criminal cases argued before the Seventh Circuit in 2019 were argued by female attorneys?
Hint: Gender diversity is better in criminal cases than civil cases. For civil cases, only 24 percent were argued by women.
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