Valizade, D, Tomlinson, J orcid.org/0000-0002-1863-885X, Muzio, D et al. (2 more authors) (2023) Gender and Ethnic Intersectionality in Solicitors’ Careers, 1970 to 2016. Work, Employment and Society. ISSN 0950-0170
Abstract
This article provides new insights into the intersection of gender and ethnic inequalities in the solicitors’ profession. Using administrative records spanning the entire population of practising solicitors in England and Wales, we analyse structural changes over successive cohorts of solicitors and identify four distinctive employment profiles: high-street solicitors, city solicitors, corporate fast-track and in-house. We show how solicitors with single or multiple characteristics associated with disadvantage are located in different employment profiles and how this changes over time. Demonstrating originality and the value of an intersectional analysis, we find that while ethnic stratification within solicitor careers decreases, stratification by gender remains constant. We find that in a period of rapid expansion, minority ethnic men become much better integrated into the most prestigious career profile in the profession – the corporate fast-track – compared with white women who are both earlier entrants to and numerically dominant in the profession.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2023. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). |
Keywords: | careers, ethnicity, gender, intersectionality, professions, stratification |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Work and Employment Relation Division (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Solicitors Regulation Authority None Given |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Feb 2023 10:51 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2023 11:15 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/095001702311596 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:196286 |
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