implicit gender biases persists, even in the next generation of lawyers; and second, that the emergence of a new generation of …Commentators have marveled at the continuing lack of gender diversity in the legal profession’s most influential and … compelling arguments, no empirical studies have tested whether implicit gender bias might explain the disproportionately low …

This article seeks to identify the mechanisms underlying the gender wage gap among new lawyers. Relying on nationally … representative data to examine the salaries of lawyers working fulltime in private practice, we find a gender gap of about 5 percent … mechanisms can fully accunt for the gender gap. Experimental studies that indicate women’s work is less valued and rewarded than …