The Gender Gap For Appellate Lawyers

These numbers are... not encouraging.

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 cases argued before the Seventh Circuit in 2019 were argued by male attorneys?

Hint: The report compares Seventh Circuit arguments in 2009 and 2019. And there’s some improvement, just not much.

See the answer on the next page.

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