Gender Gap Persists at Supreme Court Bar, Posits Panel

Law.com (National Legal Journal): “Justice O’Connor said women are still underrepresented as Supreme Court law clerks — 11 out of 38 this term — and in the solicitor general’s office, and when she asked Kagan, ‘What are we doing about it?’ Kagan did not offer an answer. At another point O’Connor guessed that some male justices don’t ask as many questions and are not as “out and out mean” with female advocates as they are with males.”