Stratification in the Legal Profession
Sex, Sector, and Salary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4953633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jo Dixon (0000-0002-9680-4358), Carroll Seron |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 381-412 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3053972 |
| OpenAlex | W2313763429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 42 |
There is a long-standing debate over the role of human and social capital in explaining the gender gap in the earnings of professionals. Expanding on current research on sex differences in the incomes of male and female lawyers, we show how the process of earnings determination varies by sex and organizational sectors differing in sex composition and bureaucratization of decision making. Using data from a random sample of lawyers, we demonstrate that the effects of human and social capital on income vary among males and among females practicing law in private, corporate and government organizational sectors of the legal profession. We also show that there are sex differences in the effects of human and social capital on income within these sectors. Together, these findings suggest that stratification processes in the legal profession are based on both sex and organizational segmentation
Economics · Labour economics · Legal profession · Political science · Salary · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation · Psychology
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Lawyers' Lines of Work
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Transformative Institutional Change
A Systematic Review of the Gender Pay Gap and Factors That Predict It
Gendered Inequalities in Earnings
Professional monopolies and divisive practices in law
Women in the Legal Profession
Contexts of System Justification and System Evaluation
Lawyers’ Professional Careers
Perceiving Discrimination
The Status of Legal Professionalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century
The Gender Pay Gap and High-Achieving Women in the Legal Profession
The Financial Rewards of Elite Status in the Legal Profession
Engendering Inequality
Selling Women Short
Social Identity versus Reference Frame Comparisons
Lawyer Satisfaction in the Process of Structuring Legal Careers
Privileges and penalties in the legal profession
The Professions Are Dead, Long Live the Professions
Intraprofessional Competition and Earnings Inequalities Across a Professional Chasm
Cultivating Clients in the Competition for Partnership
The Elastic Ceiling
Hierarchy and Stratification in the Israeli Legal Profession
Blasé
Social Capital and Constraints on Legal Careers
Flight from Law
Nunca Te Toman En Cuenta [They Never Take You Into Account]
The Status-Health Paradox
Tournament of lawyers
Chicago lawyers
Bureaucracy in modern society
Women's work, men's work
Ascription and labor markets
Households, employment, and gender
Men and women of the corporation
The Gender Factory
A Treatise on the Family
Partners with Power
Human Capital, Effort, and the Sexual Division of Labor
Economic Dualism
The social mobility of women and men in the Ontario legal profession
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Jobs and Gender
Lawyers for Hire
Sex, Discrimination, and the Division of Labor
Socioeconomic indexes and the new 1980 census occupational classification scheme
The Toronto Legal Profession
Family Investments in Human Capital
The second shift
The American occupational structure
Women's Job Mobility Processes Within and Between Employers
Women's Employment During Pregnancy and After the First Birth
The Organization of Work in a Segmented Economy
Work Commitment, Sex-Role Attitudes, and Women's Employment
Sex and Authority in the Workplace
Gender, Domestic Labor Time, and Wage Inequality
Industrial Restructuring, Gender Segregation, and Sex Differences in Earnings
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The Family as the Locus of Gender, Class, and Political Struggle
Determinants of Responsibility for Child Care Arrangements among Dual-Earner Couples
Commitment to Work and to Family
Firm Size, Occupational Segregation, and the Effects of Family Status on Women's Wages
Gender, Parenthood, and Job-Family Compatibility
Collegiality, Bureaucratization, and Professionalization
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The Structure of Economic Segmentation
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Racial discrimination and the social organization of industries
Sexual inequality in the workplace
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2026 (30) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |