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Gender inequality in the Chinese legal profession
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In China's urban context of labor retrenchment, women are faring poorly relative to their male counterparts. Is the same true in China's incipient, dynamic, and expanding legal profession? Findings from four sources of quantitative data suggest that gender inequality in China's private and highly market-driven legal profession is a microcosm of larger patterns of female disadvantage in China's evolving urban labor market. Although employment opportunities for women lawyers have greatly expanded quantitatively, their careers are qualitatively less successful than those of their male counterparts in terms of both income and partnership status. In the Chinese bar, women's significantly shorter career trajectories are perhaps the most important cause of their lower incomes and slimmer chances of becoming a law firm partner. Future research must identify the causes of this significant career longevity gap between men and women in the Chinese legal profession.
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- Authors
- Michelson, E.
- Affiliations
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Michelson, Ethan
- ORCID
- Michelson, Ethan
- Venue
- Research in the Sociology of Work
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Published
- 2009-01
- Pages
- 337-376
- ISSN
- 0277-2833 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2270599031
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 58
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 1.88
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Research in the sociology of work (publishedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Styrelsen för Internationellt Utvecklingssamarbete
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Labour Market and Migration
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Industrial relations › Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies
- Keywords
- gender inequality, legal profession, women lawyers, law firms, career paths, income inequality, partnership status, urban labor markets, China, women's employment
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