Female Lawyers Earn 23% Less Than Male Counterparts

The median pay for full-time female lawyers is a little more than three-fourths that of their male counterparts, a U.S. Census Bureau study found. Broadening the numbers to include all law-related jobs, women earned just 51.6 percent that of their male colleagues. That number is impacted by the fact that paralegals and support workers, who earn less money, are more likely to be women. Nevertheless, female legal support workers made 73.7 percent that of male staffers. Law tops the list of industries with large gender wage gaps.