Date: May 21st, 2024 10:35 PM
Author: Carnelian tripping roommate
lmao @ your shit firm not even having Law360 but okay here you go:
Law360, Los Angeles (June 9, 2016, 7:55 PM EDT) -- A new study exploring whether women are targets of more severe punishment than men following ethics violations at work found that female attorneys were more than twice as likely to be disbarred than males, despite having identical ethics infractions.
The study, which analyzed nearly 500 disciplinary proceedings in 33 states from 2008 in which lawyers violated the American Bar Association's ethical rules, found that women were disbarred 35 percent of the time while men were disbarred 17 percent of the time in cases where the ethical violations were the same.
Released earlier this month by researchers at Vanderbilt University, the University of Pennsylvania and Northwestern University, the study posited that women are stereotyped as being more ethical than men so when they commit ethics violations, the punishment tends to be harsher.
The researchers conducted experiments in which participants were told of a hypothetical situation of either a male or female committing an ethics violation and asked the subjects to assign an appropriate punishment. When the hypothetical person was listed as male, the subjects gave him an average jail sentence of 83 days, compared with a 133-day sentence for a hypothetical female.
"Our results suggest that people have a particularly adverse reaction to women who violate ethical expectations and suggest that people have higher ethical expectations of women compared with men," one of the study's co-authors, Mary-Hunter McDonnell of Penn's Wharton School of Business, told Law360 on Thursday. "So when women do commit ethical violations, it violates our expectations, which makes it especially punitive."
McDonnell, who has a Ph.D. in management and a law degree from Harvard University, spearheaded the portion of the study focusing on attorney discipline and was surprised by the magnitude of the discrepancies.
"We found that women are significantly more likely than men to be punished to a higher degree," she said. "Where a woman might be suspended, a man is more likely to be put on probation. Looking at the data and just modeling for disbarment, we found women are more than twice as likely to be disbarred as men for the exact same offense."
One mitigating factor that leveled the playing field for women in disciplinary proceedings was when there were an almost equal number of female disciplinary panel members, the study found.
When 44 percent of the panelists were women, the likelihood for disbarment was the same across genders, according to the study. However, McDonnell noted that on average, just one in four disciplinary panelists were women.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5531180&forum_id=2#47682139)