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WHERE ARE THE FEMALE SUPREME COURT CLERKS?
Each summer, 37 lawyers arrive at the Supreme Court. They are the law clerks, four for each justice and one extra for the chief justice. They are predominantly male. Even though law schools have been turning out classes of nearly 50 percent women, only 1 9 percent to 40 percent of the Supreme Court clerks in the past 1 4 terms have been women.
Of the eight Harvard Law grads serving as clerks for the 2007-2008 term, only one is a woman. The subject came to the fore in 2006 when only seven women were appointed to clerkships, the lowest female representation in 12 years. Through the 1990s and early 2000s, typically one-third of the clerks were women.
Why the disparity? Kristen Solberg, who advises judicial clerkship candidates at Harvard Law School and is chair of the Judicial Clerkship Section of the National Association for Law Placement, summarizes, "It's a good question. I wish I had a good answer. Without concrete reasons behind the discrepancy, it's hard to know what to make of it."
For more information, please check out Cynthia L. Cooper's article in the summer 2008 issue of Perspectives, A Magazine for and About Women Lawyers.
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