Today in Supreme Court History: August 10, 1993

8/10/1993: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg takes oath.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Comments

[Dan Schiavetta]

Look at the photo of her 1959 Columbia Law School class and you will notice a certain . . . imbalance between men and women. Almost as bad as the VC.

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What do the Viet Cong have to do with anything 1959? Were they a thing then?

[Dr. Ed 2]

Look at a picture of your local K-12 school system and you'll notice a certain .... imbalance today....

[Jimmy the Dane]

Heck look at enrollment numbers for just about any university or college. You will see a particular imbalance sometimes as high as 70/30.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Any other imbalances? Also similar to those of conservative legal blogs?

Ah, the "good old days." Some people think so highly of them they attempt to relive them.

[Jimmy the Dane]

Look at a picture of current Supreme Court clerks and you will notice a similar imbalance. Just no one on the Left seems to have a problem there are few men there.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

The first article identified by my Google-compatible device (National Law Journal, December 2017) offers this:

"Since 2005 twice as many men as women have been hired as law clerks, even though as of last year, more than half of all law students are female.

"The court’s 2016 law clerk class came closest to gender parity with 42 percent women clerks. This term, the court’s 38 law clerks—14 women 24 men—are 36 percent women."

Do you contend enough female clerks have been hired since December 2017 to precipitate a problem in this context?

Or is this just more white male grievance flailing from the target audience of a strikingly white, remarkably male, right-wing blog?

[jb]

From https://abovethelaw.com/2020/01/supreme-court-clerk-hiring-watch-the-complete-clerk-roster-for-october-term-2019/ :

"As noted, the class of 39 clerks has 16 women and 23 men, making it 41 percent female — below last term’s figure of 45 percent just over 50 percent, but above the historical average since 2005, which hovers around a third."

59% is a weird definition of "few men".

[Krychek_2]

Oh well, facts, schmacts.