We study the progress of women’s representation and achievement in law schools. To do this, we assemble a new dataset on the number of women and men students, faculty, and deans at all ABA-approved U.S. law schools from 1948 to the present. These data enable us to study many unexplored features of women’s progress in law schools for the first time, including the process by which women initially gained access to each law school, the variance in women’s experiences across law schools, the relationship between women’s representation and student achievement, and the extent to which women disproportionally occupy interim and non-tenure track positions. We contextualize our findings by situating them within the vast qualitative literature on women’s experiences in law schools and the legal profession.

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美国法学院的女性，1948 年至 2021 年

我们研究女性在法学院的代表性和成就的进展。为此，我们收集了 1948 年至今所有 ABA 批准的美国法学院的男女学生、教师和院长人数的新数据集。这些数据使我们能够首次研究女性在法学院的进步的许多未探索的特征，包括女性最初进入每所法学院的过程、不同法学院女性经历的差异、女性代表与学生之间的关系成就，以及妇女不成比例地担任临时和非终身职位的程度。我们将研究结果置于有关女性在法学院和法律职业经历的大量定性文献中，将其置于背景中。