Azmat, Ghazala; Ferrer, Rosa - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike … evidence of a gender gap in annual performance. Male lawyers bill ten-percent more hours and bring in more than double the new … aspirations to become a law-firm partner account for a large part of the difference in performance. These gaps in performance have …