This article represents the first effort to measure the changing global supply and composition
of lawyers over a period of several decades. In it I assemble data on lawyer populations and …

Since the 1990s, the number of women in Chinese courts has been increasing steadily.
Many women judges have risen to mid-level leadership positions, such as division chiefs …

Pathways into Crime (Palgrave, 2015), I often felt all that mattered was the search for
equality and justice for women. However, women occupy a diversity of social statuses. With …

Sociolegal research has shed considerable light on gender inequality in the civil justice
system. Existing research, however, rarely looks beyond court proceedings to examine …

The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of empirical studies exploring the
relationships between legal and extra-legal factors and judicial attitudes and behavior in …

This research investigates how and why the digitalization of work can disrupt age‐based
earnings stratification in an occupation. Analysing a service archive dataset from a major …

Workplace gender inequality is an ongoing and systemic social problem. Despite women's
entry into professional occupations, the'glass ceiling'effect persists. With Australia's legal …

Although there are several studies on gender differences in occupations, few studies
address the accounting profession, in particular those related to the occurrence of the glass …

Interest in studying law has grown dramatically in Russia since the collapse of the Soviet
Union in 1991. When high school students are surveyed about their future, becoming a …

Foreign businesses investing in China face severe problems surrounding the handling of
valuable knowledge. Critical issues are the excessive leakage of knowledge and insufficient …