Paul Campos posts about the change in gender balance at U.S. law schools since 1971. There's been a lot of debate among law professors and others about the relative worth of a law degree that saddles most students with enormous student loan debt while job prospects are diminishing and some question whether law schools should be producing so many lawyers.
I won't review Campos's statistics in detail (which are mind-numbing, even in a short post), but here's the main number: "100% of the growth in JD
enrollment at ABA law schools over the past 40 years is accounted for by the
increasing number of women going to law school." Campos asks if law schools expanded "beyond the actual economic demand for law degrees in large part because
of an always unstated and usually unconscious assumption that
comparatively large numbers of women law graduates would drop out of the
profession within a few years of graduation?" Since the law remains a male-dominated profession, Campos argues, the increasing number of women at law schools must have been lured there to fund the lasting education for men.
After 14 weeks, I think the collective response is "WTF?"
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