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Sep 15, 2010 6:10PM

NEWS: Gender Pay Gap at Law Firms Not Performance-Based, Say Researchers

The National Law Journal

Lower productivity is one theory as to why female partners at law firms earn less on average than their male counterparts. But it's not true, according to research by law and business professors from two universities. "Our data show that women partners outperform their men counterparts," they wrote. "If these women are underpaid and undervalued in terms of rank despite their conformity to a lockstep pattern, the inequalities could be due to intentional discrimination."

LINK: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202471981981&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=Law.com&pt=LAWCOM%20Newswire&cn=nw20100914&kw=

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