Duff, L. and Webley, L. 2021. Gender and the legal academy in the UK: a product of proxies and hiring and promotion practices. in: Auchmuty, R.S., Ulrike Schultz, U., Shaw, G. and Thornton, M. (ed.) Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy UK Hart Publishing.
| Chapter title | Gender and the legal academy in the UK: a product of proxies and hiring and promotion practices |
|---|---|
| Authors | Duff, L. and Webley, L. |
| Editors | Auchmuty, R.S., Ulrike Schultz, U., Shaw, G. and Thornton, M. |
| Abstract | In this chapter we examine the differential numbers of men and women in each of the seniority levels of the legal academy with reference to qualitative studies on gender and the legal academy in the literature, and our initial analysis of the UK Higher Education Statistical Agency’s systematically collected data derived from all higher education institutions in the United Kingdom. We then apply the human resource management research literature to these data to seek to understand how decision-making in the academy may explain ongoing inequalities. Our research suggests that the continued disparity in male-female promotion trajectories is, at least in part, a function of the way in which talent, merit, or excellence is understood and operationalised in the academy more widely. We posit that the disparity in the numbers of men and women at the higher levels of the legal academy will only be successfully countered once we adopt a more sophisticated approach to analysing what makes an excellent law teacher/researcher/administrator and then develop and promote people on that basis. |
| Keywords | women, legal academy, inequalities, career, promotion |
| Book title | Gender and Careers in the Legal Academy |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publisher | Hart Publishing |
| Publication dates | |
| Published | 25 Feb 2021 |
| Place of publication | UK |
| ISBN | 9781509923113 |
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