Women’s law school enrollment exploded over 5000 percent from 1960 to 2008.
Evidence
Between 1960 and 2008, the enrollment of women in ABA-approved law schools increased more than 5,000 percent, so that today women make up almost half of entering law students. For the past two decades, even as overall enrollments have skyrocketed, the number of white males enrolled in law schools has remained more or less constant. Today, more than 27 percent of American lawyers are women, and this percentage will increase as current and prospective female law students enter the profession. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 664
Since that time, as Table 4.1 documents, a revolution has occurred. Between 1960 and 2008, the enrollment of women in ABA-approved law schools increased more than 5,000 percent, so that today women make up almost half of entering law students. For the past two decades, even as overall enrollments have skyrocketed, the number of white males enrolled in law schools has remained more or less constant. Today, more than 27 percent of American lawyers are women, and this percentage will increase as current and prospective female law students enter the profession. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 664
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 664
- XREF: connects to: American law schools barred women through much of the twentieth century. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 663
Broader Connections
- American law schools barred women through much of the twentieth century.
#complicates(0.80) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 663