Gender Gap Persists at Supreme Court Bar, Posits Panel
The topic of the panel discussion was "Women Advocates of the Supreme Court Bar," and among the speakers were the nation's first female Supreme Court justice and its first female U.S. solicitor general. But in spite of the accomplishments of Sandra Day O'Connor and Elena Kagan and the other panelists, the free-flowing discussion on Thursday afternoon in Washington, D.C., left the sense that full equality of treatment for women lawyers has not yet been achieved.
