valizade, danat, tomlinson, Jennifer, Muzio, Daniel orcid.org/0000-0003-1725-9011 et al. (2 more authors) (2023) Gender and ethnic intersectionality in solicitors’ careers, 1970 to 2016. Work, Employment and Society. ISSN 1469-8722
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 to 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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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > The York Management School |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2023 11:30 |
Last Modified: | 09 Jan 2025 00:10 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:196429 |