Supreme Court Clerkships and Women's Opportunity
A sign of the Court's growing conservative bent?
Supreme Court Clerkships and Women's Opportunity:
By Emma Coleman Jordan Today's NYT provides a look at the clerkship hiring records of the Justices. Linda Greenhouse reports that although women represented almost 50% of law school graduates in 2005,only 7 of the 37 clerkships went to women for the 2006-7 term that begins on October 2. The coming term will be the first time since 1994 that the number of women clerks has been in the single digits. In a review of the number of women hired by each Justice in the seven hiring periods since 2000, the Times rank orders the Justices as follows. Breyer 54%Ginsburg...